Patrick Caldwell, Author at The American Prospect

Paul Ryan’s “Smoke and Mirrors”

The GOP congressman wants to slash the welfare state, but can’t fathom a single cut he’d make to defense spending.

Political scientist’s model predicts Republicans gaining a slight majority.

Rand Paul and Ken Cuccinelli schedule speaking gigs in the Hawkeye State.

And jabs at Mitt Romney’s plan to defund the women’s health organization

43 percent of Republicans say they want to ignore the primaries and caucuses.

What happens when Tea Partiers descend upon the Capitol to protest Obamacare.

A new poll finds the public has grown weary of the decade-long conflict.

At the first day of hearings on the Affordable Care Act, justices appear ready to make a decision this year rather than wait until 2014.

Gingrich says a contested nomination would draw in viewers, but it’d leave Republicans in shambles

Harold Simmons pledges to give Republican super PACs all the money they could want, but where it is spent is all that matters.