Welcome once again to our year-end wrap-up and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group, from whom I have stolen all these award categories.
It's a shame that the most important piece of the Democratic agenda has been hijacked by a member of the Democratic Caucus representing a solidly Democratic state, but it's not surprising.
Who knew Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter would emerge as one of the most vocal opponents in the Senate of the President's military escalation in Afghanistan?
Sen. Arlen Specter would like to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial be televised, stemming from a prosecutorial belief that trying him in a federal civilian court is the right decision.
The MPAA is back -- this time, before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) -- asking permission to disable lawfully purchased HDTV-capable TVs.
When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.
What's more important: a cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits for retired people, or health insurance subsidies for the unemployed? The answer depends on your clout in Washington.
[First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.] The man who beat non-Democrat Joe Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut urges...
Recent signs of recovery and those who say the recession is over are cold comfort for the millions who are still searching for work or have stopped looking. Their world is bound by paying the bills and raising families.
As I start to exhale, I am realizing, personally, that Specter is not right for Pennsylvania at this time.
The public option will create competition and will help to provide affordable choices for American families. It will also allow us to greatly expand the number of Americans with health insurance, and that is an imperative.
The most significant news about Obama's democracy-crushing efforts in Pennsylvania, Colorado and New York is not what it says about his integrity, but what it says about his political priorities.
{Originally posted at my blog Senate Guru.} One of recent Republican Arlen Specter's weak but frequent lines of attack against Democratic Congressman...
Early in my service I was told, "When a jet crashes, often the boots are all we can find." Such was my not-so-subtle introduction to the need for end of life planning.
What Arlen Specter's opportunistic party switch has taught us is you can take the Senator out of the Republican Party, but you can't take the predilection towards manufactured offense out of the Senator.
There is no "we" in the protester's view, no welcome for your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of fellow Americans, much less immigrants. There is only my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my church and my ethnic group,
Congressman Sestak's leadership has seemingly been the only thing pulling recent Republican Arlen Specter to the left on key issues in health care reform.
Too many politicians get to Washington and turn their backs on those who got them there. I'm looking for a progressive partner in the blogosphere both during and after the campaign.
Manufacturing is essential to rebuilding our economy and moving away from the debt-driven boom bust cycles of the past.
I spent a week away without Chris Matthews. When I came back, everything was the same. Except me.
