Barack Obama has been praised as a smart politician whose long view pragmatism and patience belie shrewd instincts. President Obama is certainly efficient. He's managed to do in less than a year what it took George W. Bush six or so years to do -- completely alienate a significant chunk...

A little over a month ago, I wrote a piece called Badfellas about how Rahm Emanuel and President Obama had killed health care reform. At that time, I thought we'd end up with a trigger. Oh, I recall those optimistic days fondly.

As cynical and realistic as I...

"Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is." - Bob Dylan

Former HuffPost intern David Vines wrote a good piece about the following little bit of video that shows a young Sarah Palin supporter being asked about the shirt she's wearing. But while Mr. Vines...

Do you remember how Joe Pesci got killed in Martin Scorcese's film Goodfellas? Pesci was told he was finally going to get what he'd always wanted and become a made man. He and his mother proudly picked out his best suit and got him ready for the big moment....

There were plenty of cowardly votes in the House last night but there was only one truly brave one. The unsung hero of the night was Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich. Despite enormous pressure to support H.R. 3962, Rep. Kucinich did the right thing and voted 'no.' Unlike the Blue Dog...

The rift among progressives about President Obama's performance has been growing for months. The President's defenders share the same short list of excuses for him. He's only been in office so many months. He's never claimed to be ultra-progressive. He can't do everything at once. He inherited big problems.

The...

In a political move that Republican strategist Karl Rove said will 'mess up people's heads way worse than their heads ever been messed up before, yo', leaders of both the Republican House and Senate introduced a bill today calling for a national Single Payer health care system that builds on...

I've come to the conclusion that the House health care reform must die and I've made a 30 second video to tell you one reason why.

Would you solve homelessness by mandating housing? Or by allowing banks and landlords to raise everyone's rent 25% when the mandate kicks in?

Why...

WASHINGTON DC - In a move that many are calling a brilliant chess rope-a-dope double-quick back flip of genius awesome supercalifragilisticexpealidotious maneuver political wonderfulness and magical triangulation, today President Barack Obama ordered 40,000 openly gay and lesbian troops into the Afghan War. In a really good speech, President Obama said...

Back in March, I blogged here about quitting my job. I was betting that I'd do better without a job in the current cutthroat corporate climate.

For the past seven months, I've probably been the only HuffPost blogger living in a hotel with their family. That's four people and...

HIDING IN THE GUEST HOUSE, NORTH CAROLINA : Former Presidential candidate, former Vice Presidential running mate, former Senator and former decent human being John Edwards issued a statement thanking 'Mamas and the Papas' founder "Papa" John Phillips.

Over this past weekend, Edwards was the subject of a New York...

Glenn Beck can sure connect those dots! Not since Charles Manson listened to The White Album over and over and over and over and over has someone connected so many dots with such a potential for a horrible outcome. And not since The Manson Family has a group of followers...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - After months of hearing skeptics doubt him, Senator Max Baucus (D - Lobtana) today achieved his goal of presenting a health care reform bill that 'threaded the needle' of achieving full support from both major political parties - the drug company lobby and the insurance industry lobby....

Distinguished Fox TV host, author and assface Glenn Beck was an awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the prestigious but secretive University of I Don't Remember, a leading conservative think tank that recently estimated the crowd at the Beck-sponsored 9/12 protest at 1.7 million. The University and Beck later...

In a major speech this morning, President Barack "Toastmaster" Obama admitted that he hasn't been making nearly enough major speeches and promised that he would clarify his position on major speeches in a major speech to be given this afternoon to both houses of Congress, the Washington press corps and...

I'm hanging out with my family at our hotel room this morning. My daughter Olivia is watching Ben 10: Alien Force on the Cartoon Network. (She tells me to make sure and mention it's Alien Force so you don't confuse it with the previous seasons of Ben 10. A stickler...

Some progressive friends of mine don't seem to understand that we've already been sold out on the Public Option. That's the truth but it's not the last word. I beleive there is still time for serious pushback from progressives on the insane course of capitulation and compromise that the White...

As the President of the United States of America, our President of the United States of America is faced with many complex choices. War or peace? Economic surplus or financial ruin? Pursue equal rights for all or just sort of wait around and see if it all works out eventually?

I don't understand why Elizabeth keeps making statements that she knows to be lies about John Edwards, the woman he fell in love with and the baby they conceived together. For the sake of everyone involved and because health care reform matters so much, I wish she would stop.

It's...

There's a surprising result of the work of investigator Joseph Culligan that I reported a few days ago about what appeared to be irregularities in the voting status of one of President Obama's top advisors, Peter Rouse. While it appears that Rouse may have been voting legally according to...