Joe Lieberman will add this to every bill to go out of the Senate and Harry Reid will help him, because he doesn’t want Lieberman to force a big showdown where all the Democrats in the Senate are forced to oppose the President in order to oppose the bill.

Last night we heard that the Graham-Lieberman detainee photo suppression amendment was pulled out of the supplemental. The situation is still in flux, but the bottom line is that it really sucks that progressive members of Congress are being forced by Rahm to vote against their principles in order to give the Blue Dogs political cover.

The supplemental appropriations bill (which I thought we were not going to have any more

The Third Way, a group of Congressional centrists, is proposing a “hybrid” health care “reform” that effectively guts the public plan option. It pretends to allow a public plan as an alternative to private health insurance but then deliberately hobbles the public option to shield private plans from effective competition.

Look I’m sorry that pension funds got hit. But the idea that they suffered adversely because of the the government’s loan is ludicrous, and certainly not one that they made at the time. Chrylser would be a smoking hole without those TARP funds, and the bond holders got a fair price for their assets. Beyond that, they’re just trying to shake down the federal money tree to see what falls out.

I had a great time at the Personal Democracy Forum last year, and I’m really sorry to be missing this year. I’m going to Sweden with John Aravosis speaking to the Swedish Social Democratic Party (no, this is not the Onion). But Marcy’s going to be there when PDA will take place June 29-30 in New York City at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and they’re offering a $100 discount

Leon Panetta claims he’s not trying to hide evidence of criminal wrongdoing by hiding the torture cables. And he’s lying.

With Harry Reid at the helm, what’s there to worry about?

When Sarah Palin dropped the puck at hockey games during the the 2008 campaign, the home teams lost. This weekend Rudy Guiliano invited her to a Yankee’s game. They lost. So what the fudge were the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee thinking when they invited Kiss of Fail Palin to deliver the keynote address at their annual fundraising dinner?

Featuring new videos from Jenny Wilson with the dance group Projekt Stockholm and Jesse Colin Young.

Jesse Colin Young “Get Together”

The Republicans, otherwise known as The Party of Yesteryear, are complete technospazzes.