The battle over Health Care Reform, the Stimulus Bill, global warming legislation, etc. has brought one thing clearly into focus.
The filibuster has transformed The Senate into an undemocratic, unrepresentative body of The People.
Imagine if our Presidential elections had the...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is now confident that he has the sixty votes needed to proceed with cloture for H.R.3590. The Senate has met every day since November 30th in the hopes of getting the needed sixty...
What is the news in your town today? Good lead story? Compelling editorial? Job hiring?
Or plant closing? Let’s tell our friends here what is going on in your area!
Praise to Put downs. What do they editors have to say? ...
Government workers are off for the weekend, so it’s time to check out what they were up to last week.
The low-drama activities of the Executive Branch are usually too uncontroversial or positive to be covered by the mainstream media....
I AM DEMORALIZED
As a Progressive Democrat I am demoralized. Not so demoralized that I won’t vote, but still, pretty demoralized. It’s been about a nine month process, but I want to abort this lack of enthusiasm before it gives...
Despite the fiasco that the Senate has made of things we are now faced with a simple question: what now? We know we aren't going to get what we want. In fact we knew that the minute that single...
President Obama and other leaders have reached a non-binding accord on climate change in Copenhagen. Here's how the agreement is being presented by various media outlets.
NY Times
Many Goals Remain Unmet in 5 Nations’ Climate Deal
LA Times
Tentative deal reached in...
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This week's topics:
1) HOWARD DEAN AND MARKOS MOULITSAS ARE BOTH SAYING IT’S TIME TO SCRAP THE CURRENT SENATE BILL BECAUSE IT IS TOO COMPROMISED. A NATIONAL POLL SHOWS 63% OF DEMOCRATS THINK THE PRESIDENT DIDN’T...
As an LGBT member this is something very important to me. I'm thrilled by this.
From Think Progress: Marriage equality is now legal in the nation’s capital.
This morning at the All Souls Unitarian church in Washington, DC, approximately 150...
I have been writing about this subject since I first heard about it earlier in the year. In my opinion, this is one of the most important and far-reaching stories of my lifetime. It is about the...
