Signs of hope and change in America. Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan ...read more

A few years ago, when my beloved Washington Redskins were having one of their craptacular seasons, an article quoted a player from one of the teams who had played against the Redskins about what exactly was allowing so many teams to win. The player noted that while the Redskins ...read more

Donna Edwards, who happens to be my member of congress here in Maryland, just sent out the following to her email list. Yay, Politico named you to a perfectly arbitrary list! Look, I don't have any serious problems with Rep. Edwards and she has so far demonstrated the kind of ...read more

I concede that I only half paid attention to the news for the last 4 days, I was in San Angelo, TX visiting my friend and his family, but in all the brouhaha over the cap and trade bill that passed the House, I notice it hasn't passed the senate yet. So, what's the point? Time ...read more

If only the scaredy pants Democrats in congress would let them have it. Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete ...read more

The Democratic party just won a historic election, taking control of the White House and increasing its margins in the House and Senate - so of course its time for the Dems to do what they do when they get in power: Tear down the leader of the party and leave him open to ...read more

10 Republican House seats begin moving away from the party of Bush-McCain and towards the party of Obama. ...read more

Congress can be so stupid. In cooperation with two outside organizations, the chairmen of the Democratic Caucus and the Republican Conference have agreed to a series of debates away from Capitol Hill to give some of the policy wonks serving in the House the opportunity to ...read more

Sadly hilarious Several Democratic and Republican lobbyists agreed GOP consultants often get it wrong with Democrats because their corporate pitch is such an easy sell in Republican offices, which already are ideologically sympathetic to businesses’ concerns. Meeting with ...read more

That's the real world title of the Republican bill the congressional Dems caved in on Tuesday. No lie, days like this make me wanna give up. ...read more

Of course Nancy Pelosi was right to go to Syria, says Sen. Hillary Clinton. Only idiot Republicans and their friends in the press think otherwise, added Oliver Willis. ...read more

I certainly am for the vast majority of legislation finally coming through the House and Senate - minimum wage, college loans, etc. But on the seminal issue of our time the question is: * Major failure? * Complete failure? Yes, there's opposition from the White House and the ...read more

Watching the official debut of Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi, I realized that - at least in the legislative branch - we have leaders who once again believe in science. After years and years of multibillion dollar energy companies and the religious far right operating ...read more