Month: February 2007

The Senate only garnered 56 votes to invoke cloture and have a vote on the non-binding resolution that opposes the escalation of the war in Iraq. Tim Johnson (D-SD) was unable to vote due to illness (nine others didn’t...

co-authored by Carnacki and SLJ of West Virginia Blue. West Virginia Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito had a chance to earn our praise yesterday. If she had continued on a path she had begun, we would have been the...

    I met a friend’s new husband many years ago, as they were selling their belongings to leave for his native South American country.  He had fled to the United States after witnessing his fellow...

Actions have consequences, as neocon extraordinaire Frank Gaffney repeatedly stated the other day in his debate with Glenn Greenwald on the Alan Colmes radio program. Indeed, as our Fake President Lincoln reminded us (circa...

This is an open thread to discuss the debate on the Senate floor. You can follow it on CSPAN-2