Close to 100 million Americans either received mailers last week or will be receiving them next week. It is these mailers that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign.

It wasn't sent by Obama, nor by 527 group, not by any non-profit or even...

There is a new Czar in America -- the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program -- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Neel Kashkari.

Henry Paulson tapped the company he ran, Goldman Sachs, to hire 35 year old Kashkari, who started as a...

This progressive says congress should take a fiscally conservative approach and only pass a bailout that pays for itself. Do it by making all the bailout beneficiaries pay. Even better, do it bottom up, but if that's not possible, at least do it so the bottom -- main street --...

As has become customary, the Democratic leaders of congress -- after making a lot of noise and protest -- are selling out Main Street, handing the real plums of the bailout to Republicans, giving George Bush and Henry Paulson what they wanted most.

Forget about the "unsupervised control" part of...

McCain comes riding and farting into Washington on his blind donkey, pressuring congress to rush things that are already being rushed too much so the debate will proceed. He politicizes negotiations, because if the house doesn't show that things were not settled, then McCain looks even more like an impulsive...

John McCain has said he's suspending his campaign and going to Washington to work on the economic plan to deal with the economic crisis.

He did something similar to this at the beginning of the Republican National Convention, when hurricane Gustav was approaching the Gulf Coast. It was...

As the members of congress explore solutions-- and I hope they are really exploring, not just working from the the proposal Paulson has submitted-- they should be keeping one thing foremost in their minds-- "How will this help taxpayers and stabilize the economy-- not "How will this help the failing...

Time to unleash Obama the man, the guy who can be tough -- and time to systematically attack McCain's America/Country/Nation First branding and narrative. It's the biggest McCain lie and where the GOP has invested the most.

It's time for Obama, or at least for his surrogates, to come on...

Don't forward that email you just got, or received three or five or ten times. It's bogus, even though the thought is dead on accurate.

I must have received ten of these emails telling me that this was THE list of books Sarah banned or attempted to ban from the...

What do local Alaskans think about Sarah Palin? That was my approach, wanting to get past the pundits and Washington insider takes on McCain's new partner. So I started calling people I thought would give me a clearer perspective-- Democratic party leaders in Alaska.

While many Democrats are laughing at...

On August 20th, I interviewed one of the most famous living historians,Howard Zinn, author of the best-selling People's History of the United States, . a book that should be read by every American. The interview covered a wide range of subjects. This article covers his Advice to...

Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand.

Sheehan reported, in an email,

"As I walked toward my room, I noticed that the door was opened with...

Bob Ney: Prosecuted for Not Playing Ball with Bush Administration

"They've taken bloodsport to a whole new level in this administration" Bob Ney: Republican congressman prosecuted by the Bush Justice Department, says in radio interview with Thom Hartmann.

Because he refused...

Or should I say, running against the McCains.

When it comes to skeletons in the closet, the one that jumps out of Joe Biden's closet the fastest is his past bout with plagiarism. Back during his run for the 1988 presidency, an episode of plagiarism put him out of the...

Folks are saying McCain has the advantage with the conflict between Russia and Georgia.

It seems that Obama is holding back, letting McCain hang himself and McCain is doing a great job.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Georgia, a US ally, had been strongly advised not to react confrontively...

I'm still at the PDA conference. It's been very refreshing to see how bottom-up the meeting has been with extraordinary efforts to include ALL the participants in attendance.

In the first session, each of the close to 50 participants was asked to introduce themselves and tell about what they...

In Cleveland, the DNC is discussing the Democratic Party platform. In Chicago, PDA (Progressive Democrats of America leaders are planning how to move Obama and the congress further towards the progressive point of view.

The conference started off, last night, with John Nichols reviewing some history- noting that...

It's time the Democrats in Congress did what the vast majority of democrats want, and the constitution demands-- impeachment hearings for Cheney and Bush.

I've had a chance, over the past few months, to get a feel for this. I commissioned a Zogby poll which found that a big...

Senator McCain is beginning to show us what a McCain presidency will look like and it ain't pretty. It's creepy.

Not surprisingly, the right wing echo chamber is demonstrating what it will act like, with its latest clueless demonstration, proving that Fox News and the Drudge Report are good...

When Obama hits foreign shores, some of the billions of people who wish they could vote in the November US elections will come as close as they can get to getting their wish.

The McCain team, after goading Obama on to go overseas must now be kicking themselves to high...