Senator Dodd, what's the going rate? Could Lieberman stay in the caucus and keep his chairmanship if he gave the DSCC just $200K? $150K? 50K? $9.99? As the cliche goes, it seems we've established what the Dems in the Senate are -- now we're just haggling over the price.

It seems there may be a reason federal law-enforcement officials are not interested in pursuing serious charges against the white-supremacist tweakers who were caught this week in Denver: The man making the decision is a Republican operative. And when it came to a threat against John McCain, he had a completely different approach. The AP story describing the official pooh-poohing of the threat

Senator Dick Durbin was asked on camera to offer an example of a meaningful vote where Joe Lieberman helped the Democratic caucus. He rather pointedly declined to do so, and characterized the question illegitimate. WATCH IT!

Seriously, the most overused words in Denver have to be dialogue and conversation. It's like mum and apple pie, who can be against "making everyone part of the dialogue" or " having a national conversation" about X? Except it's fake, there's no freakin' dialogue on most issues: a few people have opinions which matter and most of the rest of us don't.

Brokenhearted conservatives join us progressives on our end of the see-saw to tip the balance away from political insanity. We can argue the fine points later.

# Reax to last night's speeches have been generally excellent...WTF? Even Sullivan liked Bill Clinton's speech...Another shocker -- Bowers is finally happy with the night....Meanwhile, McSame has chosen a veep.

Sixty years later, Hubert -- can you believe it?

Stand - Sly and the Family Stone

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born 100 years ago today. I hope this will not be forgotten tonight.

Obama shows p to share the stage with Biden.