It is only the second month of the year but it might be the end of year for everyone in Congress. Disturbing reports reveal partisan election year politics have encumbered any progress in the Capitol. The rest of us will keep working hard for the remaining 10 months, including the staff at The Last Word so here are some stories we are looking at today. The nation should lampoon Congress' vacation.
- Congress set to pack it in for the year
- Is Romney the new Bob Dole?
- Weekly unemployment filings fall to lowest number in four years
- Will Romney lose Michigan? "That won't happen," Mitt says
- New Detroit News poll shows Santorum lead
- Santo paid double Romney's tax rate in 2010
- Candidates embrace super PACs
- Nate Silver: Here comes class warfare
- Oklahoma Senate passes Personhood Act, saying life begins at conception
- Santorum surges in his own rhetoric
- Conservative pundits find Romney disengaged
- Joe Kennedy III to run for Barney Frank's seat
- The Obama campaign's minority blueprint
- Most inmates in deadly prison blaze were not convicted
- Interracial marriage in the U.S. climbs to new high
- General Motors annual profit soars
- Whitney Houston funeral to be streamed live online