In Cheney's mind, he's a courageous patriot who's not afraid to get things done. Cheney thinks that terrorists will be scared of the U.S. if only we'd torture more and…
What happened before does have an affect on what is now. We fought a civil war to end slavery and hundreds of thousands died in that effort. The civil rights movement 100 years later ended overt state discrimination. And 60 years later we have elected ourselves our first black President. That is progress. And I tend to think righting the wrong is an inherent apology in and of itself. Further, I am a progressive, so I tend to look forward in working to make the country better, rather than backward to what we were before.
Castle flip flops on the jobs bill, again, and now he has come out against the filibuster in the Senate. If Mike Castle were a real leader following his principles, he would immediately call on his supposedly future Senate Republican brethren to end their unprecedented obstructionism. I say, if he were a real leader with principles....
John McCain is facing a competitive Republican primary for his U.S. Senate seat. He's facing wingnut former Rep. J.D. Hayworth and even wingnuttier Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Some of McCain's previous…
Jon Stewart and Samantha Bee explain the progressive movement to Glenn Beck. Somehow, I don't think he'll get it. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
TPM is reporting that Tom Carper is now saying that he will sign onto the letter to pass the public option through reconciliation! Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) tells TPMDC that…
Utah's proposed legislation is hardly surprising since we already knew the pro-life movement is all about controlling and punishing women. A bill passed by the Utah House and Senate this…
First the health care bill was too long... A spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner today ridiculed President Obama's health care proposal because it's too short. "The White House's…
How is your Tuesday so far? I've been incredibly busy, how about you? Why don't we get started with this open thread? A woman calls into a tech show because…
Do you remember Prof. Ward Churchill? In January 2005, Churchill's work attracted publicity because of the widespread circulation of a 2001 essay, "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens". In the…
Dick Cheney is in the hospital for chest pains. He has had four to five heart attacks over the last 30 years, and God knows how many bypass surgeries and angioplasties. The real mystery in all of this is how they can do all this surgery on an organ he doesn't have.
I'm dyin' here. Scott Brown was in and out of the Senate chamber and had voted against his party before most of his colleagues had even arrived. "It's a small…