“It’s journalistic shorthand to note a politician’s party identification and state after his or her name. For example: Jane Doe (D-NY). And so Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is identified as (I-CT). But the ‘I’ does not stand for ‘Independent.’ It stands for ‘Insurance Industry.’ “

David Broder, lazy, liar, both?

Pinetop Perkins and Kenny Wayne Shepherd backed by The Muddy Waters Band — Got My Mojo Workin’.

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Nothin’ could be fine-a, than to be in South Carolina on Halloween…

When I saw Speaker Pelosi and House Majority Leader Hoyer declare victory this morning, I knew that I’d get an email from the DCCC blaming the Republicans for trying to block real health care reform and asking for money as a show of support. Here’s my response.

A lot has been made of the fact that the new health insurance exchange would only be open to a small subsection of the population which is uninsured or works for a small business. The new public option will only be available to people on the new exchange. As a result, most people would be [...]

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called for further public investment to aid economic recovery and solve the short-term and long-term crises that the country faces, including a new National Infrastructure and Development Bank.

The Harry Reid is in the process of merging the two Senate bills, but what the final Senate product will be is still a secret. For the most part, the bill from the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) is expected to serve as the base that the new Senate bill is being built upon. It is [...]

The FBI’s newly released investigation guidelines allow agents to start investigations on very thin suspicions, effectively allowing profiling.

We now have the legislative language for the House’s less robust public option (PDF page 211), and it has been reported that Harry Reid plans to include the Senate HELP Committee’s public option–with some form of state opt-out procedure. (Whether legislative language for the public option in the merged Senate bill is exactly identical to [...]