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While engaging in astonishing viciousness, vulgarity and violence toward Republicans, liberals accuse cheerful, law-abiding Tea Party activists of being violent racists. Full Story »

Boston - In 1947, when excusing Soviet totalitarianism had become quite the rage in fashionable progressive circles, George Orwell eviscerated a British politician who consistently defended totalitarians but nevertheless denied that he was a defender of totalitarianism. “But of course he does,” Orwell wrote. “What else could he say? Full Story »

Democrats have just found out what happens when they join a good idea – more disclosure in campaign financing – with flawed legislation and partisan politics. They fail. Full Story »

For several days now, Senate Republicans have ridiculed their Democratic counterparts for prioritizing campaign finance legislation over a bill that would benefit small businesses, arguing that Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was putting electoral advantages over jobs for everyday people. Full Story »

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After Senate Democrats broke a 50-day filibuster and restored unemployment benefits to the long-term jobless, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed to do more. Full Story »

Back in February 2010, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) made a pitch to the titans of the financial services industry. "I sense a lot of dissatisfaction and a lot of buyer's remorse on Wall Street," the Virginia Republican said, referencing the industry's supposedly souring relationship with the Obama administration. Full Story »

Proponents of filibuster reform moved swiftly on Wednesday to stem speculation that their effort to revamp the rules of the Senate lacks the requisite number of Democratic votes for passage. Full Story »

The Nation -- At my Daybook today I link to a remarkable Garry Wills blog item at The New York Review of Books site, in which he reveals that he is breaking a kind of embargo a year after he and other historians had dinner with President Obama. It seems that most of them warned him about the "folly" of continuing/escalating in Afghanistan—and Wills is sad and angry that the President didn't listen one bit. Full Story »

The Nation -- More than 100 Democratic House members and a dozen Republicans voted against funding the Obama administration's Afghan war surge Tuesday, offering one of the strongest shows of opposition to presidential warmaking since the Vietnam War era. Full Story »

The Nation -- Never was the case so weak for throwing another $33 billion into the Afghanistan sinkhole, but that's what a defensive US Congress did anyway on Tuesday evening. The vote was 308-114, with Republicans supplying most of the prowar votes. Full Story »

WASHINGTON, DC - The Massachusetts State Legislature has approved a law that would award the state's electoral college votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Is this the beginning of the end of indirect election in America? Full Story »

WASHINGTON, DC - Liberal pundits enticed by the prospect of Congressional Democrats using the "Constitutional option" to repeal the filibuster in 2011 may have had their hopes dashed by a handful of Senate Democrats who say they would not support the move. The filibuster, used by Senate Republicans under Obama with historic frequency to handicap the government's ability to act, could be potentially repealed with the support of 51 Senators at the start of the next Congress in 2011. However, there may not be 51 yes votes, as a number of Democrats have voiced opposition. Here's what people are saying. Full Story »

WASHINGTON, DC - It's not a stretch to say that the Iowa Republican Party feels enmity for President Obama. Their recently-adopted party platform includes a "birther" plank, as well as one calling to "restore" the original 13th Amendment of the Constitution for the sole apparent purpose of using its byzantine language to strip Obama of his Nobel Peace Prize. Full Story »

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WASHINGTON, DC - The Taiwanese TV station famous for producing animated reenactments of major U.S. news stories has done it again. This time the target is Sarah Palin and the producers take even more poetic license than usual. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel spotlighted the video on his show: Full Story »