Gaga accomplished something that Barack Obama never did during the health care debate or the stimulus: she put pressure on Maine’s Senators by appearing in their backyard. In fact, just that event alone represents more lobbying than the President has done on this entire bill in the Senate. And she doesn’t have Air Force One; she drove up I-95 in her tour bus 11 hours from Raleigh, North Carolina to make it to Portland.

Would that the Attorney General cared more about that rule of law than chumming up to the opposition party.

But…but…the Teabaggers are libertarian and all about economic issues. Yeah, not so much.

This thoroughly modern Republican candidate is no bigot, he’s merely a racist.

Poco-In The Heart Of The Night A great song from a great group…! What’s on your mind, tonite…?

Witches! Bloody altars! Aqua Buddha! Andy Cuomo’s lesions! All in a day’s Tea Party campaign.

The group One Wisconsin Now has uncovered a voter suppression effort coordinated by Tea Party groups, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, and the state Republican Party, in an effort to knock thousands of high-propensity Democratic voters out of the election in the Badger State.

Technology makes it easier for entertainers and top execs to maximize their pay, while deregulation allowed the banksters to command huge salaries.

After the 2010 Census is finished, will you know where your district went? That’s the question posed by Jeff Reichert in Gerrymandering, a movie which should be shown in every civics and American history class in the US.

According to the Constitution:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Place of Chusing [sic] Senators.

GMAC, the struggling financing arm of General Motors, whose mortgage arm holds $26 billion of mortgages, just suspended foreclosures in 23 states in a harried, chaotic policy shift. The only thing I can think of to elicit that kind of reaction is the noose tightening around foreclosure fraud.