Bob Dole

McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics

2013-04-07 00:00:00

Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....

Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty

2012-12-06 13:53:00

Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...

Obama's inaugural speech provokes rattled Republicans

2013-01-23 05:00:00

The complaints of congressional Republicans that President Obama’s inaugural address sent them no bouquets and love letters show a lot of gall, given the history of the last four years. Obama’s inauguration speech in 2009 was crammed with...

Senate Republicans block U.N. disabilities treaty

2012-12-04 10:52:00

The Senate rejected a United Nations treaty aimed at banning discrimination against individuals with disabilities Tuesday, falling five votes short of the two-thirds needed in a 61-38 vote. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With...

George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72

2012-10-21 08:01:00

George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...

Newt's swan song in the key of F, as in Florida?

2012-01-30 16:36:04

Obama on deficit talks: 'I have bent over backwards to work with the Republicans'

2011-07-11 16:36:34

Gabrielle Giffords' not the first sickbed-to-Capitol Hill vote

2011-08-02 16:36:15

PASSINGS: Norma Zimmer, Dick Walsh, Robert F. Ellsworth, Robert Traylor, Burt Reinhardt

2011-05-12 00:00:00

Norma Zimmer Singer was Welk 'Champagne Lady' Norma Zimmer, 87, the "Champagne Lady" of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer, died Tuesday at her home in Brea. Her son, Larry, did not give the cause of death. Zimmer performed on...

Q&A with Max Blumenthal, author of ???Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party???

2009-10-09 04:34:26

Weekly remarks: GOP Sen. George LeMieux and President Obama debate healthcare

2009-10-10 04:34:21

Obama scolds Wall Streeters, who paid $15,200 each to hear him, at Dem fundraiser (text, video)

2009-10-21 16:34:30

Former President Gerald Ford, left, introduces Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, center, before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Sept. 15, 1987. At right is Sen. Robert Dole.

2012-12-19 08:05:06

Former Sen. Bob Dole, right, in wheelchair, during Senate vote on disability treaty.

2012-12-06 00:00:00

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, right, is wheeled into the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington by his wife, Elizabeth Dole.

2012-12-04 10:52:32