Month: January 2006

Put your happy thoughts here. Sellouts: 1. Akaka 2. Inouye 3. Cantwell 4. Rockefeller 5. Byrd 6. Bingaman 7. Lieberman 8. Nelson (FL) 9. Nelson (NE) 10. Baucus 11. T. Johnson 12. Dorgan 13. B. Lincoln 14. Salazar 15. Conrad 16....

  I just got an extraordinary challenge from a staffer in Jeff Bingaman’s office: 2000 calls against cloture to his office in the next 20 minutes and Bingaman will be goddamned impressed enough to reconsider his Yes...

The two No. Dakota senators, Landrieu, Cantwell (!), Olympia Snowe, Rockefeller .. haven’t committed yet. The current total is 57 Yes / 37 No. So close. (Carl Levin is also critical, as is Jay Rockefeller who hasn’t...

The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes On July 22 on the Underground Tube in London, the Metropolitan Police, along with a special unit of Security Forces, shot dead an innocent man.  Seven shots to the head and one to the...

Cross-posted to Washblog.  It’s very Washington-centric, and may refer to specifics that are unfamiliar to a national audience, but the lessons are portable – and important, I think. The election of...