Politics

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday suggested that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was "inciting racism" in a effort to get more minorities to vote for President Barack Obama.

Appearing on MSNBC on Monday morning, Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brian Darling tried to advocate on behalf of Republicans' efforts in several to purge allegedly fraudulent voters from the rolls ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

A left-leaning CNN contributor on Monday said that Americans who voted solely based on who let them "roll up a blunt" were foolish and shouldn't bother voting at all.

Congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein have a new book out that flies in the face of the conventional media narrative by blaming the Republicans for the lion's share of Washington gridlock and blasting what they call "asymmetrical polarization."

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday called an Obama campaign event in Boston a "political stunt," but said the same wasn't true of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's surprise press conference in front of Solyndra, a bankrupt solar energy company.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) described Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, a tea party favorite, as having "wacky" ideas on bipartisanship.

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) on Sunday ripped his opponent, Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, for campaigning to be "the rockstar of the far right."

Mitt Romney's senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, on Sunday said that social issues important to women, like contraception coverage and abortion rights, were "shiny objects" that were being used to distract voters.

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman once again slammed Rep. Paul Ryan's (R) budget Sunday morning, chastising Mitt Romney's advisor Eric Fehrnstrom for firmly standing behind it.

Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday used outrage over New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on large sugary drinks to slam attempts to curb climate change.

Ed Gillespie, an adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, on Sunday said that a loss for Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Wisconsin's recall election would not "factor into November," but a win would mean that labor unions shouldn't be "too greedy."

On Saturday morning, Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Senate Elizabeth Warren addressed a breakfast meeting of labor leaders in Boston. The Harvard professor acknowledged that the Brown campaign has shown that they are willing to get "nasty," but said that she is ready to fight for the Democratic Party and for the people of Massachusetts.

In an unusually blunt and plain-spoken segment on Friday night's "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow tore into Republicans for claiming that they care about jobs numbers when all they actually do on Capitol Hill is try to pass more and more laws restricting abortion, even when they know those bills are doomed to fail.