Month: October 2009

Wednesday night Rachel Maddow announced: “Two major powerbrokers on the left…are encouraging a Senate strategy in which the leadership would revoke chairmanships and other leadership positions from any Democrat who...

Cross-posted at Project Vote’s Voting Matters Blog After the 2008 election, voter registration has become a focal point for legislators and advocates from all ends of the spectrum. Whichever way it is sliced, the number of...

While it is definitely too early to be issuing report cards, when the dust finally settles on health care reform, I’m finding hard to believe that Nancy Pelosi won’t be receiving an A-Plus. She’s been stellar...

If you look at the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill (PDF), you’ll see that it substantially increases eligibility for Medicaid. Starting in 2014, nonelderly people with income below 133 percent of the FPL...

First, before we get to the main course, a small appetizer (yes, that’s sarcasm) from “Over There.” KABUL, Oct 8–A car bomb exploded outside the Indian embassy and the Afghan Interior Ministry in the...