Charles Hurt has been D.C. The Post's bureau chief and news columnist since 2007 covering the presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama. He traveled extensively with the campaigns during the long 2008 Democratic primary, the general election and covered both Democratic and Republican conventions. A native of Chatham, Va., Hurt began his newspaper career on the city desk of the Detroit News, covering the city's collapsing public school system, corrupt city politics and disfunctional fire department. Since 2001, he has covered national politics from Washington. Before joining the Post, Hurt followed the 2004 presidential campaign and covered congress for the Washington Times.
WASHINGTON -- Throughout his political career, President Obama could not -- as Jack Nicholson's character in "A Few Good Men" might say -- handle the truth. He had the luxury of going to elegant parties, where he...
March 06, 2010 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- The congressional whale otherwise known as Rep. Charles Rangel has finally been beached. Just weeks ago, Democrats were bellowing about the need to let the House Ethics Committee finish its...
March 03, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- It's good to be the king. Just ask newly "admonished" Charlie Rangel. He stands at the intersection of what should be the most sacred and fundamental covenant between the government and us....
February 27, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Anyone expecting the professor- in-chief yesterday to perform miracles and begin healing all the sick for free and waking his health-care legislation from the dead were mightily disappointed. There...
February 26, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- In cluded in President Oba ma's latest stab at health-care reform released yesterday is one of the more astonishing admissions of political deception in recent memory. After months of swearing that...
February 23, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- The Dem ocratic Congress is in the dumps, the Obama presidency has turned into something of a lemon, and Republicans have enjoyed a spate of victories in some of the most unlikely places. So why would...
February 22, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Curling up into the political fetal position and begging others to do what he does not have the guts to do himself, President Obama yesterday issued an executive order establishing the National Commission...
February 19, 2010 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- Having lived in the belly of the beast for much of his life, Evan Bayh has emerged -- soul apparently intact -- to testify about it. What he witnessed convinced him that giving it all up and walking...
February 17, 2010 12:00 AMNASHVILLE -- Speaking to the Tea Party convention here last night, Sarah Palin did not have to deliver a substantive speech built around words and ideas. All she had to do was show up, give her trademark wink and a...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AMNASHVILLE -- It will go down as one of the great ironies in American political history that the Warrior Queen of the Tea Party movement was delivered to the multitudes by John McCain, a heathen loathed more scornfully...
February 06, 2010 4:12 PMNASHVILLE, Tenn. --Here in the weather-controlled, domed fan tasy world that is Opryland, with its fake river and cheesy tour boat meandering through a manufactured rain forest, Tea Party Nation seems like a great idea...
February 06, 2010 12:00 AMNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- No body ever said tea parties have to be pretty. At least, not the kind of tea party gathered here in the thumping heart of gaudy country music. These people have come from all across the...
February 05, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Even in this winter of President Obama's discontent, things appear likely to get much bleaker for him before they get any better. The first casualties were Democratic governors who fell in New Jersey...
February 02, 2010 12:00 AMSTERLING, Va. -- The state of the union here in Strip Mall America remains bleak, which could spell doom for Democrats in congressional elections later this year. But here at Glory Days Grill, President Obama,...
January 28, 2010 12:00 AMHere are five things President Obama needs to do when he appears before Congress tonight for his State of the Union Address: 1. Take the voodoo out of your economics. Once and for all, explain to the country a...
January 27, 2010 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- A normal, compassionate human ex posed for the first time to the debauchery that remains of John Edwards' dishonest life and career could be forgiven for feeling a little sorry for the pathetic cad....
January 22, 2010 12:00 AMBOSTON -- The thumping Scott Brown delivered in Massachusetts was a shocking rebuke of President Obama and Democrats in Congress, but it is Republicans who should take this moment to stop and think long and hard about...
January 21, 2010 12:00 AMBOSTON -- The Republican knockout victory here last night should be a Code Brown alert for President Obama. It was a political earthquake of equal magnitude to the temblor that crushed Haiti. Amid the...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AMMARBLEHEAD, Mass. -- Call her Martha Chokely. It should have been the easiest election cakewalk in the free world. But things have gotten so bad here for state Attorney General Martha Coakley that the projected...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AMBOSTON -- They just don't get that inside is out here. President Obama's emergency rescue mission to save Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley could prove to be the final nail in her already-closing political...
January 18, 2010 12:00 AMBOSTON -- Call it smear by association. It appears to be -- literally -- the only hope Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has to pull off a slender victory here, in one of the most Democratic states in...
January 17, 2010 12:00 AMThis is what happens when you try to please everybody. In other words, this is what happens when politicians get distilled down to their most basic essence. Kirsten Gillibrand was a perfectly legitimate — if somewhat...
January 10, 2010 1:10 AMWASHINGTON -- Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton was right all along. During the nastiest battle of the entire 2008 presidential race, she aired an alarming television commercial warning voters that they would come...
January 08, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- You know the ship is in serious trou ble when even the rats start jumping into the frothy abyss rather than risk sticking it out on the cracking boat. Sen. Chris Dodd's announcement yesterday that he...
January 07, 2010 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON -- First it was delusion. Now it is denial. Let's just hope the Obama administration works through this vexing 12-step program they're in before al Qaeda decides to launch another attack. Last week,...
January 04, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- This is no time for the return of Professor Obama. Responding to the attempted terror attack on an American plane in US skies, Obama took a break from the sandy beaches and golf links of Hawaii to...
December 29, 2009 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- So, this is your Homeland Security Department working. A Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boards a flight in Amsterdam bound for the United States, despite, according to one passenger,...
December 28, 2009 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Increas ingly unloved and ridi culed from both sides, a new and embittered President Obama is emerging this Christmas season as he begins a badly needed vacation in Hawaii. In an interview on the eve...
December 25, 2009 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- This is what happens when the soaring promises of Hope and Change give way to old-style political prostitution on the Potomac. President Obama won last year vowing to change the way Washington works....
December 15, 2009 12:00 AM
COPENHAGEN -- In climate negoti ations here, America is the Big Con. If the rest of the world can just get us to fall for this swindle, they'll win everything. America will pay billions more to smaller...
December 14, 2009 12:00 AM
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