Some of you may remember how Tim Walz, a schoolteacher from rural Minnesota, pulled off the Mother of All Upsets back in 2006 when he defeated longtime Congressman Gil Gutknecht in Minnesota's historically hyper-Republican First District. Well, the Republicans are spoiling for a fight, but somehow I suspect Tim's not too worried.

From the DOD document dump Rummy & the Washington Generals finding that the cure for a Democratic Congress is "bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb U.S."

...you might want to send Stephen Colbert an apology. And a few dozen roses. Far from hurting the careers of the Democrats who go on his show, a new study has found that donations to Democratic lawmakers appearing in his "Better Know A District" segment spike upwards rather dramatically.

The conventional wisdom in Rhode Island says if Senator Lincoln Chafee (or just “Linc” here in Little Rhody) had run for re-election in any year other than 2006 he would have easily won. But it was 2006 and in a national wave Chafee lost to a Democratic challenger flipping the Senate back to the control of the Democratic Party.

Cecile Richards, head of Planned Parenthood, just got up on stage and really got the audience going talking about how dangerous it was that another supreme court judge might be appointed who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, and how progressive needed to get active in electoral politics to preserve a woman's right too choose. Huzzah.

The FDL Book Salon welcomes Sarah Posner to discuss her book "God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters" where "prosperity gospel" preachers, "Word of Faith" movement leaders, and others from this branch of the TheoCon world meet McCain, Gingrich, Brownback, Rove and others in the GOP.

On Saturday night Howie Klein and I went to a dinner at the home of Rick Jacobs (Courage Campaign) for Jon Tester, who was raising money for his PAC to support Democratic Senatorial candidates in 2008. Blue America raised over $17,000 from 901 contributors for Tester during the last election, so we took the opportunity to bend his ear and ask him about many of the issues that we felt were of

The Corporate/Bush Dog Wing of the Democratic Party - the one that our friends in the GOP/Media Complex like to portray as "reasonable" and "sensible" and "moderate" Democrats ("reasonable" meaning "rolls over for Bush and the GOP") - would very much like us to go away. They want to be able to keep the actual Democrats like Feingold outnumbered and shackled.

I really don't know what good Federal election laws are if nobody is going to enforce them. It was infuriating that nobody ever investigated Joe Lieberman's huge slush fund following the 2006 general election, so hopefully they'll get around to this: Contributions from associates and friends of now-indicted garbage executive James Galante to the 2004 presidential campaign of U.S.

Flying west to check up on the California fires, somebody got a very special ride on a very special plane after casting her very special vote for a very special federal judge:Bush invited Sen. Dianne Feinstein to join him on Air Force One during his trip. It may not have been coincidence that less than 24 hours earlier, Feinstein played a pivotal role in allowing Judge Leslie Southwick, a target of