Rahm Emanuel, the man who thought the war was a loser issue in 2006, who recruited 10 of the 20 Democratic House members who vote with Bush most frequently, the man in charge of the highly successful "House messaging" (see YouTube above), is now evangelizing that dealing with immigration is a dog for Democrats: Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an influential advocacy group, blasted Rep.

Newsweek tell us that Bush and his Merry Bunch of Wingnuts are going apeshit about Dodd's hold on the FISA bill: As Democrats squabble, the administration and top Republicans are moving to exploit the issue. They accuse Democrats of sacrificing national security for short-term political gain. "Al Qaeda is not going to give us a break just because we're having an election," said Rep.

Eleanor Clift uses her recent Newsweek column to rehabilitate the reputation of Rape Gurney Joe Lieberman, presumably for the benefit of fellow Villagers who've forgotten just what dear Joe did wrong. It must be a puzzle to the short-attention span cocktail party hostesses and Sunday gasbags who can't exactly recall why decent Democrats despise Joe, even though they know there's a bunch of people you can't invite if he and

Markos over at DailyKos talks about some good advice being offered by Republican Senator Charles Grassley (no, really!) on how to get the SCHIP bill passed: Grassley said if he were the Democrats, he would send the SCHIP expansion to a vote every three months, along with campaign advertisements accusing Republicans of abandoning children.

What a week! We are in dire straits indeed.Our Congress---that we sacrificed so much for to elect in '06---speaks out boldly on habeas Iraq censuring freedom of speech. Bush says Hussein killed Mandela and Return on Success means it's the troops' own damn fault that we can't bring them home.But it's not all storm clouds.

Sometimes you can be too far ahead of the curve and you have to wait for time and circumstance to catch up with you. Unfortunately for America, Connecticut voters aren't casting their votes today in the Lieberman/Lamont race because if they were, Ned Lamont would win and the US Senate would be rid of the pathological, warmongering narcissist Joe Lieberman (CFL-AIPAC). The poll, commissioned by Daily Kos, found that Ned would handily beat

The great science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, speaking through his character Salvor Hardin, famously wrote that "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". I'd like to amend that slightly, and add "fear" to that statement. Fear is what the incompetent -- or amoral -- use to incite us to tolerate, even enjoy, violence and other amorality.

How are Rahm Emanuel and Disco Stu alike? Well, they're both men stuck in a prior decade: Disco Stu in the 70's and Rahm Emanuel in the screw the base 90's. They are different, though. Disco's Stu's fixations merely abet fashion crimes. Rahm Emanuel? Well, you be the judge. Yesterday Truthout ran an examination of how Emanuel, who remains in a position to do candidate recruitment for the DCCC this cycle,

I was always told that it was both wise and good manners not to intervene with parents who seem to be making every mistake in the book with their spoiled children. The Democrats have been observing that rule on the theory that the badly behaved children occupying the White House are not their kids; Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove, Gonzales and etc.

While I know it's conventional wisdom to confuse Karl Rove with the Oracle at Delphi, let's dial it back to what CW was only a short time ago: If you turn on any radio station or read any article in virtually any newspaper, the consensus is that the American voter prefers Democrats to Republicans and that the Democrats have a legitimate shot to take over both houses of Congress.