David Broder eulogizes the old GOP and brings on the Lemon Party

Nathan Moore’s song about doing something great.

The RNC is the party of inclusion – of old white, hate-filled guys. And that one black dude.

At some point Republicans are finally going to admit that they hired Michael Steele to head the RNC because of the color of his skin and not the content of his character.

In case you were wondering, bigotry is apparently alive and well for some in the GOP when considering a hypothetical SCOTUS appointment. One that hasn’t even been made yet.

Jesselyn Radack opposed lying to a federal judge about the due-process rights about John Walker Lindh and got the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility telling the Maryland bar about her “misconduct.” If only she had advocated torture

Looks like Steny Hoyer and his buddies in the Blue Dog Dixiecrat Coalition are getting ready to implement the long-standing fever dream of their Cato Institute mentors and wage yet another war on Social Security. Break out the pitchforks!

The last time Social Security was under attack, its attackers claimed that privatizing it — that is, chopping it and its trillions-dollar trust fund into shreds and handing out the pieces to eager brokerage firms

Mike Allen’s column on the advice Frank Luntz gave to Republicans about how to talk about health care reform is a stunning example of how the Republicans have nothing constructive to say about how to fix the nation’s disgraceful health care system. Shorter Luntz: empathize, lie, and scare people.

The Red Cross in Afghanistan is reporting “dozens” of civilian casualties in a massive US air strike, local sources put civilian casualties at 120 or more. The broken record of US officlal regret is playing once again.

When Dick Durbin pitched his rant on the Senate floor about bankers who “own the place,” he asked his colleagues whether they were going to listen to families facing job loss and bills they can’t pay, or the American Bankers Association.

The Senate takes up the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights this week, but that question has largely been answered.