Friday and Saturday we had news that the White House was behind the public option and had finally weighed in supporting Dems in the House and Senate …
Read moreHarry Reid can be a truly idiotic individual. Greg Sargent has Reid's statement: The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid …
Read moreThe lesson of Speech To Childrengate: wingers can keep their kids home from school while talking heads go on record and praise the President's s…
Read moreTPM Muckracker has a timeline up of the Harman/AIPAC case if you're looking for some basics.
Read moreThe latest NBC/WSJ poll shows the President's numbers on health care are falling in a general sense, but the more specific pollsters were about t…
Read moreI've been saying since the Obamacare deal was reached in the Senate that the devil was in the details. Jon Walker over at FDL has a very compell…
Read moreSince the President discovered the hard way that it's tough to close Gitmo when your own party is too scared to do it, it looks like that little …
Read moreJon Chait on Joe F'ckin Lieberman: I think one answer here is that Lieberman isn't actually all that smart. He speaks, and seems to think, ex…
Read moreMax Baucus. Still a lousy Democrat. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is the first Democrat to express displeasure with President Obama&…
Read morePresident Obama made it clear to House progressive Dems this week that the public option is dead, and that progressives need to swallow their pride a…
Read moreThe practical upshot of the Caroline Kennedy/David Paterson mess in choosing a successor for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is that Paterson's…
Read moreAtrios: Can't wait until I can buy some war bonds. Hopefully when you buy them they put your name on a freedom bomb.Boom baby boom. At the inter…
Read moreWho would have predicted that after running away from President Obama and losing the Senate that Senate Democrats would no longer have President Obam…
Read moreGov. Jay Nixon has just declared, for all intents and purposes, a preemptive state of emergency in Ferguson. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a …
Read moreAnd now it turns out New Jersey is the hotbed of allegations of international money laundering to Israel through Rabbis and selling human kidneys for…
Read moreEl Rushbo! Still a douchebag. Now a douchebag overtly playing the "health care bill as gubmint giveaway to swarthy people" race card. …
Read moreIf there's one person in the Democratic party more ridiculously obnoxious than Ralph Nader, it's Dennis F'cking Kucinich, who I am now c…
Read moreThe notion that all the people aboard last week's ill-fated flotilla bound for Gaza were "terrorists" seems to be par for the course in…
Read moreMeanwhile, funding the rest of the federal government before the end of the year will proceed as the Dems managed to beat back a Republican filibuste…
Read moreThe leading replacement for Daschle for HHS secretary? As Digby points out, it's our old friend Blue Dog Jim Cooper.I wrote the other night abou…
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