I guess you were the only one who didn't know:

[M]any in the abortion rights community — which has been divided by tactical disagreements over the years — also recognize they were outmaneuvered by adversaries who understood the basic anti-abortion arithmetic of abortion votes in the House. “I think Pelosi, NARAL and Planned Parenthood knew the reality — but a lot of other people had unrealistic expectations with Nancy Pelosi running the House and Barack Obama in the White House,” says a longtime abortion rights lobbyist.

Losing the Kennedys but gaining the Cheneys. OY!

So Arlen Specter is switching parties. Who would've thought? Well, not Harry Reid, on March 27: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Friday that Sen. Arlen Specter’s (R-Pa.) decision to reject “card-check” legislation has ended any chance of a party switch. Reid as well as Vice President Biden, Pennsylvania Gov.

Can't hardly click on a web link nowadays without seeing something about Republicans leaving guaranteed government sinecures for more bucks (thus imperiling the Federalist Society's plans to fascisize the Federal Judiciary), or leaving the GOP because they can't take Bush and the neocon bullcrap any more, or repenting because they can't take Bush and the neocon bullcrap any more (or don't want their complicity in Bush's actions permanently affixed to

If you'd asked me six months ago what I thought I'd be doing right about now, I would've speculated that long-shot candidate Ned Lamont would've been defeated in the August primary by Joe Lieberman (acknowledging that there was value in the effort and still licking my wounds over the "thanks for fighting the good fight" post I had to write when it was over).