• START is the football — the GOP is Lucy.
• See also: the 9/11 health care bill.
• Krugman: when zombies win.
• Here comes the Republican-controlled House.
• Best System in the World(TM).
• Victory is just around the corner.

Well, at least Bill Kristol didn’t advocated invading the North Pole.

A tribute to the Musicians we’ve lost this year…

Have they told her that John Boehner will soon be Speaker of the House, second in line for the Presidency?

The Senate continued a mad rush in their fairly productive lame duck session today, passing a food safety bill and filing cloture to end debate on ratification of the new START treaty.

On Thursday, President Obama announced the results of his administration’s latest review of our war on Afghanistan. As expected, he reported that it was “on track.”

The public believes that the President is sincere in wanting to reduce the budget deficit because he is, in fact, sincere in wanting to reduce the budget deficit. He talks about it being in the medium term, but his opponents in the GOP want that to happen immediately, to cancel out the stimulative effects of this bill.

It’s long been known among foreign intelligence operations that Republicans and their allies are the best friends our enemies could possibly have.

During the summer of 2006, when Rahm Emanuel and Howard Dean were engaged in a strenuous fight over the future direction of the Democratic Party, I stumbled upon a very astute op-ed in the New York Times by an emerging politician scientist, Daniel Galvin, entitled “How to Grow a Democratic Majority.”

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued additional subpoenas for documents from the big banks in a growing probe over servicer behavior and foreclosure fraud. They seem particularly interested in securitization, and whether the assets, i.e. the mortgage and the note, were ever properly conveyed to the trusts. This is a very important development.