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What a difference having the president in the country makes. After a tumultuous and uneven week last week this week has been a major perhaps historic step forward on healthcare reform. Two bills have advanced this week to the general assembly in each chamber of Congress. The three committees working on healthcare reform have joined together to forward a bill for markup to the floor of the House. While the Senate HELP committee in somewhat of a surprised outflanked the Fiance committee and passed a bill on a 13-10 partisan vote.

Holder's trial balloon describes a course of inquiry worse than no investigation at all. While what little we know we know due to carefully leaked comments, the fact that the leaks were coordinated to several newspapers simultaneously and that the...

It seems far too many Americans live by the phrase, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining...unless you're really, really convincing." Many people WANT to be sold on bullshit, they just don't like thinking about things that make them feel bad or insecure and welcome any and all attempts to re-label reality. This is endemic in politics but just as intertwined in most other parts of society.

There have been numerous developments on the healthcare reform front since congress has returned from July 4th recess. The biggest development is that the Democrats now have a so called "super majority" since they now have 60 seats in the Senate thanks to the addition of progressive Senator Al Franken of Minnesota.

This week's latest installment in the soap opera of Sarah Palin has given again the opportuinity to reactionaries (the people who detest Bill Clinton or Barack Obama) to again ask in a plaintive voice: "Why are Liberals so hateful...

Dear God, We humbly write to you, our great and omnipotent Lord because we're not sure you're aware of what's been happening lately. We've done everything to follow what you want. We hate all the right people. We promote Christian values...

I tired, almost two months ago, at the foolishness of my fellow liberals, working the meme "President Obama is playing three-dimensional chess" when discussing the pending (0r NOT!) investigations into the crimes of BushCo. Particularly at a site that shall...

Okay, one of the bullshit arguments that Republicans trot out on Health Care should be blown up for once and for all. I was watching Bill Maher Friday night and a dweeby Republican Woman, feigning a sense of humor (which...

For me there is nothing more tedious than a jingoistic expression of pride in America.    The less often one needs to say that America is the greatest nation ever, the more likely it is to be true. Now I need...

People committing domestic mass murder is almost commonplace in today's American society.