According the MSNBC’s “First Read,” the WSJ is reporting that the Democrats plan on calling for a vote of no confidence on Rumsfeld when they return to session:
the Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that Hill Democrats may try to hold a no-confidence vote on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during consideration […]

In late July I read a New Yorker article on the religious movement backing Ken Blackwell’s campaign for Senate in Ohio. I’m notorious for letting my New Yorkers sit idly in a pile on my coffee table after I read the cartoons, but I jumped on this one because I remember this pudgy Republican […]

It becomes clearer every day that neither Joe Lieberman nor Dan Gerstein get it.
Dan Gerstein, Lieberman’s director of communications, said the campaign has not settled on how to describe Lieberman in its literature.
“It’s an unusual circumstance,” Gerstein said. “He is a registered Democrat. . . . If he’s asked his party affiliation, he’ll […]

Today’s Washington Post article by Peter Slevin sites polling data from late July that makes it look like South Dakota’s voters are going to vote down the legislation that bans abortion in all cases except for when the health of the woman is in danger. Don’t worry, that good news didn’t stop Slevin from using […]

Joe Lieberman’s op-ed in today’s Hartford Courant, appearing alongside an op-ed by Ned Lamont, begs so many questions and comments that I find myself forced to go through it piece by piece. It opens:
Washington is broken.
I am 100% certain that Joe Lieberman will absolve himself from any role in the breaking of Washington. So this […]

Compare this statement by Ned Lamont:
When I became a candidate, you became the campaign.
To this effort at purpose from former Democrat Joe Lieberman:
Like many of you, I am fed up with the partisanship and polarization that is blocking us from addressing the issues that matter most to Connecticut families. And that is precisely why I […]

CSPAN’s Washington Journal is having the dumbest call-in show I think I’ve ever heard. Sure, O’Reilly and Hannity have some scary topics on their shows and their callers are more than happy to oblige them with wingnuttery, but that’s to be expected. CSPAN is usually pretty good, right? Well, they just spent 15 […]

The New York Times editorial page has responded to the brutish fear mongering of Peter Hoekstra and the GOP by offering up a resounding rebuke to the congressman’s urine puddle of an intelligence report on Iran.
If the Republicans who control Congress really wanted a full-scale assessment on the state of Iran’s weapons programs, they would […]

Voting machines aren’t really an issue Emboldened writes about much, but maybe we should. Diebold is one of the big players in electronic voting machines. It is also huge in ATMs. Apparently it’s business model is to profit on the American way: capitalism (cash) and democracy (voting). Unfortunately, they seem to […]

Progressive States reports that California (woot!) has joined the movement to bypass the Electoral College without passing a constitutional amendment:
California’s State Senate has approved a plan for the union’s largest state to join an interstate compact that would effectively end the electoral college and allow the victor of the popular vote to become the President.
The […]