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If you’ve been following the saga, you know by now that Congressional leaders - including Barney Frank - realized that ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) would not pass if it included protections for transgender persons, so the trans protections were dropped.
This has led to some serious brouhahas (I don’t like the way that sentence reads but [...]

Today Congressman David Obey (D-WI) may have scotched the Democratic Party’s carefully constructed innocent bystander fable, the narrative that says Democrats can’t be held responsible, cannot stop funding the Iraq occupation and only have the power to sign blank checks for the Bush administration.
According to Talking Points Memo Obey, the chairman of the House Appropriations [...]

Back in November, I wrote:
Repeat this endlessly: Everything bad in America is the fault of Republicans and conservatives.
Be prepared for brutal, unfair, unfounded, vicious attacks from conservatives - it’s all they’ve got . . . Don’t get psyched out – the R’s play a brutal, no holds bar, no prisoners taken game. They’re wounded . [...]

Tonight on MSBNC, Pat Buchanan described the Democrats in Congress as “a whipped majority.” According to the New York Times, in a pe-emptive “compromise” “senior Democrats now say they are willing to rethink their push to establish a withdrawal deadline” for ending the occupation of Iraq.
From Greg Sargent on Talking Points Memo:
Of course, [...]

At the cnn youtube debate, Obama was asked if he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuala and Cuba and he responded by saying, absolutely, yes, he would be willing to meet with them, adding:
the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them — which [...]

“Go to the diaper” is Washington-speak for a good ole fashion filibuster.
As you know, the House passed a bill last week requiring Pres. Bush to start withdrawing troops from Iraq within 120 days.
“If Majority Leader Harry Reid — who controls the Senate agenda — follows the “gentleman’s” agreement, he will take the Iraq redeployment bill [...]

For years now, the United States government has been going through a largely unacknowledged constitutional crisis. The Bush administration has taken a radical turn, based on the theory of the “unitary executive” under which the country is governed much the same as a banana republic. Congress has abdicated its duty to oversee the [...]

George Lakoff explores “the nation as family” metaphor in his books, especially Moral Politics.  Lakoff focuses on the strict father nurturant parent dichotomy.  But, the metaphor isn’t limited to that model.
Over a Republic of T, Terrance has been exploring the Myth of a Bush Recovery; in Part three he writes
George W. Bush may well have been [...]

Forget the last election and all the promises made by Democrats. President Bush is getting a blank check for continuing the occupation of Iraq, thanks to a craven congressional leadership and some parliamentary sleight of hand. For the Iraq supplemental to fail, 20 Democrats were needed to vote “no” on the rule, but [...]

Senator Russ Feingold, writing on the DailyKos site:
This situation is a collapse for Democrats…. First Americans had to put up with a Republican Congress that did nothing, and now we are faced with a Democratic Congress that is giving the President exactly what he wants – continuing his failed policy and leaving our troops [...]

I was a guest again yesterday on the radio program called “The Right Balance” with Greg Allen.
One of our topics of discussion was who won the recent Rocky/Hannity debate and why. In a nutshell, I explained that I think by his integrity and attempts to discover and present facts, Rocky won the debate, while Hannity [...]