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Something Not Adding Up

Jul 13, 2009
The New York Times is also reporting now that the secret Bush-era CIA program kept from Congress and terminated last month by CIA Director Leon Panetta was a plan to assassinate top al Qaeda officials that was never implemented. This is additional co...

Is the Mccain Campaign Bending Finance Campaign Laws?

Nov 30, 1999
The most generous interpretation of what happened is that McCain's lawyer came up with an ingenious legal two step that allowed him to double dip in the campaign finance system, eat his cake and spend it too....

John Kerry -- Wow!

Nov 30, 1999
Most of the nets aren't showing it. But John Kerry's giving a really good speech on the foreign policy front. Knocking McCain for standing on an aircraft three months after 9/11 and calling out 'next stop Baghdad.'

Sadly Nuts

Nov 30, 1999
When asked about criticisms of Sarah Palin's readiness to serve as president, McCain responded: "If they want to go down that route, in all candor, she has far, far more experience than Senator Obama does."

The Gist of the ACORN Story

Nov 30, 1999
The Republican party is grasping on to the ACORN story as a way to delegitimize what now looks like the probable outcome of the November election. It is also a way to stoke the paranoia of their base, lay the groundwork for legal challenges...

Bernie Sanders: I Want My Leverage!

Nov 21, 2009
Meanwhile, on the other end of the liberal political spectrum, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) remains adamant in a statement issued this evening that his vote for a health care reform bill isn't guaranteed, though he stops short of saying he must have a...

Filibuster Thwarted ... For Now

Nov 21, 2009
On a 60-39 party line vote just now, Senate Democrats overcame an attempted Republican filibuster on health care reform. Determining who the lone senator not voting was. A Republican obviously ... more shortly. Late Update: Sen. Voinovich did...

The Cast Has Assembled

Nov 21, 2009
The only potential monkey wrench in tonight's vote was whether Max Baucus, who was tending to his sick mother in Montana, and Robert Byrd, himself in frail health, would actually be able to be physically present for the vote. But Baucus is...

Where Does This Leave Us?

Nov 21, 2009
The takeaway from today's debate is that the conservative Democratic senators have not budged on a public option. They've been persuaded not to block the bill from going to the floor for debate, but beyond that it doesn't appear any deal has been...

There's Your 60

Nov 21, 2009
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln just announced her support for bringing the health care reform bill to the floor for debate -- so that makes the Dems united ... on debating the bill. Not a surprise, but an important step. The official vote later today...


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