The Republican Senate leadership has been putting enormous pressure on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln to vote “no” on the motion to proceed. She led everyone to believe she might, until she said she wouldn't.

FDL's Book Salon is honored to have Maggie Mahar, health fellow at The Century Foundation, business journalist, and author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much. The book has been made into a film, produced by Alex Gibney (best known for Taxi to the Dark Side and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and featured on Bill Moyer's Journal.

There has been enough information in the last two weeks on the outrageous practices of the major drug manufacturers to warrant extensive investigations by Congress, the FDA, the FTC, and DOJ, not to mention both Congressional ethics committees. Does the WH still stand by it's "drug deal" with PhRMa?

While Obama praises the House for passing its health reform bill, an anonymous senior White Official predictably leaked to reporters why the House bill wasn't as good as the Senate Finance bill.

David Brooks accuses the media of offering politically correct "therapy" to excuse the actions of Major Hasan while ignoring the narrative that the killings justify America's global war against Islam.

Senator Unprincipled Opportunist manages to flip flop on health reform, lie about his concern over the national debt and threated to kill health care reform, while Fox' Chris Wallace never blinked an eye.

As soon as the new unemployment numbers are out, the first question everyone should ask is "where's the Administration's jobs program?"

Responding to an Italian court's conviction in absentia of 23 US officials for kidnapping a cleric in Italy, the Obama Administration further disgraced itself and America's image by calling the results "disappointing." They should have applied the word to themselves.

Liberals turned Joe Lieberman into an unprincipled opportunist.

There appears to be no limit to the number of lies and misrepresentations the unprincipled opportunist Joe Lieberman will embrace so the media will think Joe is "relevant."