... Stop Credit Card Rate Hikes: Senate Republicans blocked Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodds ... article showing his disdain for the treatment of the American people by republicans? I mean he's the ultimate bipartisan scold. I bet if ... some outrage from the Democrats, gun down Tiny Tim? (Of course, the Republicans would simply say they were defending their constitutional right to bear arms.) ...

... is going to be closed and the prisoners moved to a prison in northwestern Illinois. Most Republicans are up in arms, afraid that they might be acquitted (won't happen), or that it's going ... at what might happen if they lock you up in solitary confinement. Given the strength of the women I know, I wouldn't even want to insult them (the women, that is) by calling these Republicans girly.

... in the village of Thomson, Illinois in order to house detainees. Some Congressional Republicans, though, are not giving up and have proposed the “Keep Terrorists Out of America Act.” The bill would ... of moving Guantanamo detainees to Thomson. I kind of like that idea: Kirk and other Illinois Republicans repeatedly insinuate that the good people of Thomson will be victims of terrorist ...

... it was so damning, it might have sunk Hasan's career if he had applied for a job outside the Army. Perhaps they hoped Hasan would snap in time for the 2008 election, reminding Americans just how much we are in danger from terr'ists all the time and how only Republicans, who presided over the worst attack ever on American soil, can keep them safe by allowing such attacks to happen. (h/t)

... his long-awaited plan for expanding medical coverage to millions more Americans over the next decade, setting the stage for a historic Senate debate on a healthcare overhaul. Republicans, who have criticized the Democrats' initiative as a step toward government control of the healthcare system, are already planning a series of delaying tactics, including forcing the entire bill to be ...

ONCE THE FILABUSTER IS OFF THE TABLE... (AND THE HEALTH CARE LOBBIES' CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION CHECKS CLEAR) MANY REPUBLICANS WILL BREAK RANKS ...AND SUPPORT THE PROGRESSIVE HEALTH CARE BILL... MANY OF THESE "REPUBLICAN'TS" JUST DON'T WANT TO BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY ON THE BIGGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT VOTE OF THEIR POLITICAL CAREERS... AND SOME MAY EVEN FEAR THE VOTERS ...