It appears the Pennsylvania Democratic electorate is rapidly moving toward Rep. Joe Sestak in his May 18 primary challenge to former long-term Republican senator Arlen Specter. Specter left the GOP last year when he thought he would lose the Republican primary and determined running as a Democrat would give him a better shot at keeping his seat. With the backing of the White House, Specter has led Sestak in the polls for months, but with the election less than a week away, the trend is now moving in Sestak’s direction.

President Obama’s ineffective strategy is costing us billions of dollars and thousands of lives. Call Congress and tell them to support the McGovern bill to require an exit strategy.

Jason Leopold has a long article and videotape of an interview with Jon Kiriakou that you should check out in full. I’ll discuss their conversation about Abu Zubaydah’s torture (and, more interestingly, Kiriakou’s knowledge about who Abu Zubaydah is) later. But I wanted to look more closely at Kiriakou’s description of a June 10, 2003 meeting at which (Kiriakou says) Scooter Libby made it clear that he knew of Plame’s identity.

The President is reportedly frustrated by the continuing underwater gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. Hopefully he is just as frustrated by the almost non-existent regulatory regime in the run-up to this disaster. We’ve known about the failures of the Minerals Management Service for many years before the Obama Administration even came into power. Yet [...]

Is the US government prone to using their prohibited terrorist designations in some kind of shell game for political expediency?

Carl Levin is giving his word – he will try to put a repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy in the defense authorization bill, perhaps as soon as this month. However, he will need the 15 votes on the Senate Armed Services Committee necessary to make it stick.

Google apparently must not be working today. Either that, or Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher has yet to master this useful internet tool: Hamsher, meanwhile, drew the ire of many progressives when she led a last-minute assault on the health care reform bill. In trashing the bill, she invoked the $80 billion PhRMA deal, with which she [...]

Yesterday Barack Obama’s Office of National Drug Control Policy released its National Strategy for Drug Control. While the strategy was spun by Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske as one focusing on prevention and treatment over enforcement and criminal prosecutions, the amount of money spent proportionally is the same as during the Bush Administration.

Committee hearings Tuesday contained no explicit admissions that anyone had done something wrong, but the second hearing helped focus on the breakdown in the environmental review process. That’s a legal timebomb.

You can read the 20-page summary of the Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy bill, known as “The American Power Act,” or you can opt for the smaller four-page summary. Either way, you’re going to find a lot to like, if you’re a dirty energy producer.