South Carolina governor Mark Sanford cites the Bible in explaining why he’ll cling selfishly to power. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (of all people) cites a “moral choice” regarding a public-plan option for healthcare reform.

“The Family” is trying to pretend it’s not implicated in Mark Sanford’s and John Ensign’s moral hypocrisy.

In case anyone is wondering why I’ve been dogging the Dawn Johnsen OLC nomination for months and months on end?

Why restoration of the rule of law and having real leadership in place at OLC rather than a temporary staffing limbo is so important to me?

Wonder no more:

NPR’s report this morning that the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes has proposed what’s expected to be a highly

Democrats are worried about looking too liberal on Waxman-Markey? They look too far right.

• Who’s afraid of the public plan?
• Not wanting to deal with reality, clearly
• Health care advocates take to the Hill
• Senator Kerry did what?
• Whip it!—Day 3
• Krugman says no public option means failure

Americans for Prosperity, the wingnut outfit that helped fund the Great Teabagging, held an event in Wausau, Wisconsin yesterday, keynoted by the man who personifies the movement.

“Obama right now is talking about, he can generate more revenue by taxing the top 2 to 3 percent of Americans,” Wurzelbacher said. “Well, you know, that’s immoral.

My biggest question for months was not whether or when Monica Conyers would accept a plea deal in a pay to play bribery scandal–as she did today. But whether or not her legal problems would make her husband, John Conyers, timid in his role as House Judiciary Chair.

As the Congress works through the incentives needed to avoid cost-shifting between different health plan choices, they may find it useful to examine how the same issues are solved or avoided by a single payer system.

‘Symbolically, this is what we want for the Iraqis as a sovereign nation’

We’ve had a great response to the Whip Count Tool. Please keep the calls going, we’ve got 3 members who have taken the pledge—37 more to go.