Most of us know the well-worn, not-quite-a-cliche saying about the definition of insanity. But Republicans either haven't heard or don't care because they're ready to investigate President Clinton for the next 8 years: SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman ...read more
Howard Dean: Real health care reform that includes a new public health insurance option would give Americans a real choice and not reward for-profit health insurers with 47 milllion new customers. Real health care reform that includes a new public health insurance option would ...read more
Howard Dean on the latest offense from the party he sent into the wilderness. ...read more
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Right now, at this moment, those of us on the left should enjoy the complete and utter impotence of the conservative right in America. The White House, House, and Senate are all Democratic. The Republican party doesn't even have a leader as a ...read more
As Howard Dean prepares to step down as DNC Chairman, its worth remembering that when he started the right and much of the decaying party establishment insisted that his tenure would be counted in days or weeks, certainly not months. Democrats were in disarray, coming off a ...read more
What does it and the other two Democratic gains mean? There is nowhere on the map that a Democrat can't compete. Sure, the candidate has to be in tune with the local ethos - you won't run a Los Angeles Democrat in San Angelo, TX or vice-versa - but you don't do what Democrats did ...read more
Who knew that the RNC would bust out the wahmbulance so soon in the 2008 campaign. And they're going straight to legal maneuvers to squelch the ad. Funny how the party of "tort reform" always jumps to the lawyers. The ad hits a nerve. And I hope it keeps doing so (I gave to the ...read more
Concern trolls unite! The New York Times has the Rosetta Stone of concern troll articles for you today, describing a few nervous nellies who wish to make it known in the press that they want Governor Dean to do... something. Most notable is Clinton-supporter Donald Fowler, whose ...read more
We could get a Democrat to replace the amazingly corrupt Don Young. Jake Metcalfe could become the latest demonstration of the crazy idea that a political party ought to compete in all 50 states. Then Dean wanted to know how many organizers the state party now had on the ground, ...read more
