I'm proud that Bennet has gone to bat for our veterans by co-sponsoring the "Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act," which will expand a program that encourages our veterans to become teachers.
For the first time in over a decade, with the swing of a pen, President Obama turned his back on the right wing's ridiculous rhetoric by doing the right thing, and signing the Hate Crimes Bill.
Jane Hamsher attributes nefarious motives to our health care reform effort and the resulting legislation. I fiercely disagree. It was carefully shaped to save lives and reduce costs.
Many know how natural it is to go ballistic when we realize we've been duped. When we lose our way, it is all too easy to place hopes for happiness onto the outer world, for fame, money, things.
A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.
How will the recession morph readers? What are the uncommon indicators of the recession -- or recovery from it -- that seem to go unnoticed?
The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.
I do not know whom Senator Kennedy would have liked to have his seat. But I know that no one will work harder to fight for the values that I grew up with than Alan Khazei.
Vidal holidayed with the Kennedys, cruised for men with Tennessee Williams, was urged to run for Congress by Eleanor Roosevelt, and co-wrote some of the most iconic Hollywood films.
The progressives and Blue Dogs are going to have a showdown. It is going to culminate not in statements to the press (or the lack thereof), not in some whispered whip count, but rather in a very public vote.
What happens if health care comes up for a vote and Byrd is simply too sick to be wheeled in?
When someone suggests gender diversity as an asset of a job candidate, the reply is often "Oh no, I'm only interested in merit." Yet name some other quality needed for the position, and the idea of merit is assumed, not questioned.
In capitalism, if your product is too expensive, people don't buy it. Under Baucusism, the government forces you to buy insurance and kicks in some money to help you afford it.
Baucus' was supposed to be the "bipartisan" bill, but the only way it can truly be referred to as such is in the growing bipartisan distaste for the bill.
Here's why the Senate Finance markup that will come out next week is nowhere close to what will be in the final legislation.
To assume that Obama wants the public option based only on rhetoric is the height of idiocy. Do we assume a husband loves his wife simply because he says he does, despite years of infidelity?
The Ten Commandments do not mention homosexuality. But the Five Books of Moses do, in ways that have plagued homosexuals for centuries.
In his weekly New York Times column yesterday, Frank Rich called Barack Obama's health care speech to a joint session of Congress last Wednesday, "ins...
The inmates have taken over the asylum. The ever-sunny Reagan is dead. The congenial Buckley is dead as well. In their place is the party of Joe the Shouter and Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Death Panel Screecher.
Having been denied the presidency -- the Kennedy family's baby brother had no chance but to carve out a different type of leadership: and a much more realistic one.
The President called on all Americans to be strong, firm, and united to serve the nation while remembering the events of 9/11/01. This all sounds very inspiring. But not to Rush Limbaugh.
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