As you reflect on the horrible vote that traded reproductive choice for health care, remember that the champion of that vote is one of C Street's top Democratic members.

I didn’t think it needed saying, but obviously it does: Having to sit through a half-day’s worth of partisan wrangling, where you have access to water, food, staff, and the warm glow of TV cameras is not worse than (or even akin to) years of indefinite detention in a prison cell on a remote island, cut off from anyone you know or love, subject to routine abuse and frequent torture, all conducted under a cloak of official secrecy, outside the rule of law, without any recourse or any reasonable expectation that this hell will ever end. Further, such jocular comparisons are singularly insensitive to the denigration of human rights perpetrated under the color of authority, and, what’s more, are not in the least bit funny.

A win by ultra-rightwing Doug Hoffman in NY-23 should challenge the notion held by some Democrats that winning right-wing districts requires a move towards the center-right.

Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee already rolled over for the administration, which wants to conduct fishing expeditions on Americans' personal shopping data. Are the Dems in the House Judiciary Committee are teeing up to do the same?

It's time to invest in diapers and zit cream.

Those words came from former cattle rancher, Wyoming governor, and US Senator Cliff Hanson, one of the leading voices against the expansion of Grand Teton National Park in the 1940s. I'd love to hear some of today's GOP senators say the same about health care reform in twenty years.

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House vote to "rebuke" Joe Wilson for insulting the President on the floor of Congress: 240-179.
Republican Yeas: 7. Democratic Nays: 12.

House vote to "condemn" MoveOn for insulting General Petraeus in a newspaper ad: 341-79.
Democratic Yeas: 146. Republican Nays: 0.

When Joe Wilson screamed "You Lie" at President Obama, everyone in the chamber turned their heads -- except Wilson's Republican colleagues. Why? The GOP knew the anti-immigration, racist put down of the president was coming.

It seems like the Democrats capitulate to the right at least once a day now. Today it was Baucus and Conrad throwing immigrants under the bus to appease the guy who called the president a liar. Yesterday it was Yosi Sergant getting fired as the NEA's communication director.