You cannot talk credibly about a “broken Senate” unless you talk about the essential nature of the problem, and it’s not because people disagree about stuff.

Who are the nine Senate Democrats telling Reid they will kill health care reform if it contains the public option supported overwhelming by the Democratic base?

Four Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) have written a letter to Harry Reid calling for the Senate to pass a public option for health care reform using the budget reconciliation process.

If Rahm Emanuel’s plan to jam the anti-choice, anti-EFCA, homophobic Hill onto the ticket was disrupted as a result of our polling, don’t hold your breath waiting for me to get too worked up about it.

Baron Hill may be a favorite of the DC establishment, but he’s got so much negative baggage going in it would be almost impossible for him to win — certainly without the help of the unions. Anything that keeps him off the ticket is a favor to the entire Democratic party.

Oh, and by the way, in case you run into Marc Ambinder:

BARON HILL IS LOSING BY 8 POINTS TO HIS GOP OPPONENT MIKE SODREL

I’ll be at the Press Club in Washington DC tonight for a panel on “The Future of News.”
More details here, and you can also join the Facebook event.

LGBT and progressive bloggers are engaging in an all-out push today to contact the Human Rights Campaign, the leading gay rights organization in America, and have them show leadership on repealing the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy on gay and lesbian service members.

With Obama set to unveil the pre-Scott Brown health care compromise for next week’s bipartisan lovefest, the already fragile deal is falling apart. Fresh off a stinging slap to the face in which Obama refused to appoint Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, labor unions are apparently backing out of the deal on the excise tax on high-cost health care plans.

Here’s 5 reasons why Democrats should vote early and often in the GOP primary — and vote for Hutchison.

Representative Baron Hill (D-IN9) may have been gathering signatures in advance of today’s Democratic Senate primary filing deadline, so reports Joh Padget on The Seminal. Senator Bayh was presumed to have an easy path to his third term; established members of the Indiana delegation would not likely have planned to challenge him for the nomination. If Hill has been gathering signatures, it would suggest some prior knowledge of Bayh’s intentions.

So, here’s a challenge to the DCCC. If you think the FDLSurveyUSA results for Tim Bishop, Barron Hill, Vic Snyder and Steve Driehaus are wrong, that Martha Coakley was just a “bad candidate” and the Democrats really aren’t in any trouble, let’s poll the districts again. Together. We’ll choose a non-partisan polling firm that’s mutually agreeable, split the cost, and see if the FDL/SurveyUSA results hold up.

And what’s more, we’ll make the same offer to local media outlets in these districts who would like to join us in re-polling these races.

We’ve shown all our results. The DCCC has done nothing but spin. It’s time for them to back up all the trash-talk with some action.