"We shouldn't be focusing resources on each other," Obama said, "We ought to be focused on winning this debate." But winning the healthcare debate for whom?
Well the "Land of 10,000 Lakes" took what seemed like 10,000 years, but the Minnesota Supreme Court finally ruled yesterday in a unanimous decision to certify Al Franken's election victory.
It's been a crazy rollercoaster of a week, and at the end of it, California can proudly state that not only do we no longer have the most embarrassing...
Senators, led by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, are stepping up the pace of negotiations for a version of the Employee Free Choice Act that could be introduced by next month.
Barack Obama is trying to lock in primary candidates in Pennsylvania and New York who, ahem, were never even elected to the position in question: Democratic nominee for the United States Senate.
Unflagging grassroots lobbying pressure on the newly-converted Democratic Senator Arlen Specter has led him to promise union activists he'd support a compromise version of the EFCA.
{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} Arlen Specter appears even more desperate as his fundraising pleas are getting ever more shameless. Y...
This week, the Chamber of Commerce launches its most forceful lobbying effort yet to kill the Employee Free Choice Act and to end talk of compromise on Capitol Hill.
The GOP is simply out of touch with the rest of the country and has a very long way to go to regain relevance in American politics.
Those veteran champions of workers' rights, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and the Chamber of Commerce, unleashed new attacks this week on the Employee Free Choice Act.
The fight over the Republican primary in Florida is shaping up to be the main-ring event in the GOP's version of the intraparty struggle next year.
By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.
Following Sonia Sotomayor's nomination of to the Supreme Court today, two U.S. Senators issued the following statements.
AP coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers' visit to the White House omits five special guests: Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper and officers Edward De...
What distinguishes the current organizing climate from previous decades of employer opposition to unions?
Time will tell if Congressman Sestak makes his move against Pennsylvania's newest Democratic senator. But his options are disappearing quickly.
Once it reaches a tipping point and draws people because it is the only political game in town, the Democratic Party will begin to stand for nothing.
It is early, but so far, OFA's legislative "organizing" efforts run the risk of being boring, vague and redundant.
The most eye-opening event that unfolded in the wake of Specter's move was the completely new way in which the Senator got treated by the Republican Noise Machine.
The NRSC has found a way to piss off its base while also curtailing outreach to minority communities. Impressive job, John Cornyn.
Those who forget the fact that America is a moderate country tend to perish.
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Joe Sestak is a man to watch! He is sharp as a tack, smart and educated, and has international experience this is important for our leaders. I look forward to watching his political career and have a feeling he is going to be a star for the progressive movement. I'm delighted he is running!
"Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter called his fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, a "flagrant hypocrite" and accused his rival of registering as a Democrat 'just in time to run for Congress.'"
I swear, are these people capable of engaging their brains BEFORE their mouths?
Funny how these guys don't seem to care that they have been on tape, film, video and TV for decades..... If ever there was a hypocrite, its Arlen Spectre.
Former repugligoons-turned-democrat-for-the-votes haven't become "internets" savvy yet - this ole dino probably doesn't know how we can catch him and call him out on lies within seconds, he thinks we still live in the age where we depended upon the teevee and walter cronkite for our info. He's GOT to go, he's a detriment to pa. no matter how many times he throws us a little bone with a vote with dems. Sestak is reportedly a good candidate and i want to see specter fight for his seat, not assume he's got it in the bag.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...SPECTER SPECTER, the GOP DEFECTOR
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