“Some say” Jim Moran is a liability to his brother Brian’s gubernatorial campaign; except, of course, the two people quoted in the article, both of whom support Brian despite their differences with his brother Jim.

Lightnin’ Rod Blagojevich has decided to go all self-righteous sob sister, and without naming all the names tells some sordid tales of legislative life that are only slightly less demented than an episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County. Booze! Broads! Double dippers! Jaguar driving state senators playing zero sum games with hard working folks’ tax dollars!

According Illin’ Noise’s interview interview on WLS-AM this morning, the excesses of Springfield can really turn an elected officials head!

The first step to valuing toxic waste is to understand exactly what it is. Only then can you start figuring out what it’s worth.

Krugman spoke at the Thinking Big, Thinking Forward Conference on the economy. He started by debunking the idea that this isn’t as bad as the 82 recession because the US hasn’t lost as many jobs, first quipping “just wait a couple months” then noting something more important: the 82 recession was caused by the Fed.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee cleared Hilda Solis’ nomination as Secretary of Labor today. The vote by the entire Senate will probably happen this week.Only two Republicans voted against her — Pat Roberts and Tom Coburn. Even though Mike Enzi made a stink and said that she was not qualified to be Secretary of Labor because she supported labor, he ultimately voted for her.

2:56 pm — Lights, camera, action — Joe Liebeman is wearing WAY too much makeup as he positions himself behind Harry Reid for the cameras as they announce that a deal has been reached with the House on the stimulus plan.3:00 pm — House Democrats don’t show up for a conference meeting.

If the economy weren’t tanking and our retirements being wiped out, I’d be saving, finally, for that trip to Paris, or maybe Florence, that I’ve always wanted to take. But it seems I won’t have to go there because, according to Lou Dobbs and Mitch McConnell, France will soon be coming to Cleveland.

ColorOfChange.org members gathered at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland Tuesday to confront District Attorney Tom Orloff over his handling of
the Oscar Grant case, and to demand that he explain his decision not to charge a second BART police officer for his actions in the moments leading up to Oscar Grant’s murder.

The event was a huge success and garnered lots of good local news coverage, including reports from most of the local TV news media. Our members delivered more than 20,000 petitions — collected in less than two weeks — to Orloff’s office.
We sent Orloff a strong message that the public is continuing to watch his handling of this case.

Glenn Greenwald has been rightfully indignant about the Obama DoJ’s use of Bush’s “state secrets” argument to cover up charges of rendition and torture. The NY Times this morning says “It was as if last month’s inauguration had never occurred…..Voters have good reason to feel betrayed if they took Mr.

The Peanut CEO’s response to being invited to eat his own toxic product was invoking his Fifth Amendment Rights. But the bank CEOs? No one has yet asked them to eat their own toxic products.