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Topic: The Republican takeover

Joe Walsh (AP)

Deadbeat dad congressman wins family award

(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner: I totally owned Obama on the phone

Rick Perry

Rick Perry's comments not much uglier than usual

Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill. addresses a Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) (AP)

Rep. Joe Walsh not hawkish on debt owed to ex-wife

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Eric Cantor and John Boehner

Patrick McHenry

The most shameless College Republican in Congress

Signing of the Medicare Bill July 30, 1965: Left to right, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Bess Truman

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Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum

S.C. GOP confirms five clowns for first debate

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left

The GOP's real target: The Great Society

Jack Abramoff and Sen. John Boehner

John Boehner aide delivered Abramoff favor money

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Florida crazy: House GOP bans "uterus"

Rep. Ben Quayle

Ben Quayle knocks the hell out of fancy gala

People wave signs at a "tea party" protest on the grounds of the Colorado tate capitol in Denver April 15, 2009. Protests were held in many U.S. cities loosely inspired by the 1773 Boston Tea Party rebellion against British colonial taxes, which helped spark the American revolution. The crowds demonstrated against taxes, government bailouts and U.S. President Barack Obama's budget proposal. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES POLITICS CONFLICT) (Â© Rick Wilking / Reuters)

Tea Party Congress members take tons of farm cash

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William Cronon

Striking teamsters armed with pipes clash with police in the streets of Minneapolis, June 1934.

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Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.

Peter King promises to be polite at HUAC hearings

In this photo taken Feb. 10, 2011, stacks of the appendix of the 2012 budget wait to be bound at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington. President Barack Obama Obama will send his 2012 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, Feb. 14. According to an Office of Management and Budget summary obtained by The Associated Press, the administration will propose more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade with two-thirds of that amount coming from spending cuts. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

Cyclone Yasi's landfall in Australia in early February punctuated a year of extraordinary weather events.

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