Only Cheney’s stenographer could physically type these grafs without completely cracking up.

President Barack Obama told House Democrats on Thursday that he wants to reduce the amount of time certain biotechnology treatments are protected under an agreement in both the House and Senate bills

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The issue of bank fees may offer a political trap, a way to cleave off business-friendly Republicans away from the populist rhetoric against bailouts of the banks.

The hearings of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (Commission) are turning out to be as fascinating at the Watergate Hearings I watched back in the 1970. They’re at least as important but a lot more complicated.

In a new SurveryUSA poll sponsored by Firedoglake, incumbent Democrat Vic Snyder is trailing Republican challenger Tim Griffin by a wide margin in the race for Arkansas’s 2nd Congressional district. If the election were held today, Snyder would get 39% of the vote, Griffin would get 56%, with only 5% undecided. These numbers show strong movement in the Republican’s favor. A poll from November 16, by Public Policy Polling, had Snyder statistically even with Griffin, 44% to 43%.

There isn’t a human tragedy too big for the drug-addicted draft-dodging sex tourist to politicize. RUSH: No, I’m not evading it at all. If I said it I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president. Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he [...]

Those who forget history are doomed to talk about it on television.

Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem — Barnyard Boogie.