Any bias reflected the fact that the Democrats had ruled Capitol Hill for decades.
For the past two years, we have been inhabiting a dream world, conjured up by the witchdoctors in the White House, and sustained by their Republican stooges who ruled Capitol Hill.
Despite having ruled Capitol Hill for a half-century, during which time they successfully enacted a staggering array of innovative programs, Democrats have been maddeningly slow to adapt their message to the postindustrial age.
The rhetorical assault is a direct attempt to tie Mr. Romney to the debate over the Buffett Rule on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are set to vote Monday.
If trading insults is the rule on Capitol Hill these days, and it appears to be, the Judiciary Committee offers an especially vivid example, rivaling the House Ways and Means Committee, another increasingly nasty forum.
As the Senators were meeting, a Dane County Court Judge was poised to rule the capitol lockdown unconstitutional.
Edison Electric Institute, which represents the interests of Duke Energy and other utilities like American Electric Power and Southern Energy, has been advocating against the EPA mercury rule on Capitol Hill, according to environmental advocates.
This was just another reminder that the banks, despite nearly bringing down the economy last year, still rule on Capitol Hill, which is directly related to the massive amount of money the industry funnels to campaigns.
Although the Washington, D.C. metro area ranks eighth in the nation in our Metro Index, partisan gridlock remains the rule on Capitol Hill, where even the broadly supported Shaheen-Portman bill on energy efficiency failed to reach a floor vote in the Senate in May.
The upshot was a city abuzz with tsk-tsking, and in some quarters applause, at a bureaucrat's brazen violation of a cardinal rule of the Capitol Hill etiquette book: the Congressman Is Always Right.
