Politics

Friday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow reacted to Congressional Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)'s abrupt resignation from Congress. Tonight, she said, Washington got a little less strange.

In a scene that could have come from outtakes of MTV's popular reality series "Jersey Shore," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) was caught by cameras bellowing and storming up the boardwalk in the popular vacation town Seaside Heights, NJ after a man in the crowd insulted him. The footage, shot with a phone camera and distributed by TMZ, shows Christie shouting angrily until a member of his entourage leads him away.

A paid contributor for Fox News and Fox Business on Friday advised that the stock market would not start to improve until that it was obvious that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney was going to be the next president of the United States.

The director of issues analysis at the anti-LGBT rights group American Family Association (AFA) is proposing that the government pass a law requiring that every American go to church or pay a tax penalty.

President Barack Obama dropped in on Ohio during his campaign bus tour Friday.

A well-respected judge who was appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan says that he has become less conservative because of "crackpots" and "lunatics" in the Republican Party.

Thursday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow welcomed Washington Post writer E. J. Dionne for a discussion about difficulties facing the campaign of Republican nominee for president, Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA). Since the announcement by the Supreme Court that the individual mandate and the bulk of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act are constitutional, the Romney campaign has had real difficulty finding its footing with regards to messaging.

Conservative radio host Janet Mefferd recently warned her listeners that a report about CNN host Anderson Cooper revealing he was "proud" to be gay could literally make them vomit.

A Mitt Romney supporter literally silenced a chanting protester during a rally in Ohio today for the Republican presidential candidate by shoving a handkerchief into the heckler's mouth.

Tea Party favorite freshman Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) took to CNN today to do damage control over his critical remarks about his congressional challenger's military record. But the appearance quickly went awry, with a frustrated Walsh repeating host Ashleigh Banfield's name dozens of times as he tried to cut in and speak his mind.

A worker in Florida got an earful from Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) on Wednesday when he asked the congressman to support a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour.

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Monday rebuked Chris Rock for "holding onto the past" because the comedian called the Fourth of July "white people's Independence Day."

Fox Business host John Stossel says he recently dressed up as a homeless person and begged for money to prove that "you shouldn't give money to these street people."