Joe -- We Know Where You Live.
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. He calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats and is at his core a staunch conservative.
Jerome Karabel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Paradoxically, the filibuster -- a classic device of obstruction -- may turn out to be the unexpected pathway to health care reform.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
As Senate Republicans prepare to filibuster one of President Obama's first judicial nominees, it's important to note how the debate has reversed over ...
Bob Cesca | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.
The Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
By now most people have heard the story of the frog that's put in a pot of cold water on a hot stove and doesn't notice as it is gradually boiled to d...
Howie Klein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Blue America has run TV spots against Lincoln all summer and fall and she's watched her re-elect numbers dwindle. This week Blue America has a brand new ad for Arkansas voters to look at.
Martin Lewis | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
It's March 16, 1965. We have a Democratic President. We have large Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. It's long been part of the progressive and liberal platform...
Nan Aron | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Alliance for Justice has released a new report on judicial selection in the first ten months of the Obama administration.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The Constitution provides the circumstances under which more than a majority is required, and this type of legislation being considered for health care reform is definitely not on the list.
Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
If Ben Nelson decides to filibuster a Democratic health care bill that includes a public insurance option, he should expect to lose support among Nebr...
Paul Loeb | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
As the health care fight approaches its end game, there's now a way for us, as ordinary citizens, to exercise power, and create enough of a potential cost to deter conservatives standing in the way.
Mike Lux | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
With the Republicans becoming locked into being the party of No, Democrats are going to need to seriously consider revising the rules of the Senate at the beginning of next term.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Shan Wells | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver
What do Joe Lieberman and Lucy from Peanuts have in common?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid works to cobble together the 60 votes he needs to overcome an expected Republican attempt to block a floor vote o...
Robert Scheer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? His threat to thwart a vote on health care legislation should be the last straw that ends his Democratic caucus connection.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
If a health care bill is as critical as the Democrats -- and American public -- say it is, then what matters is passing it in as strong a form as possible, not gutting it for the sake of one, empty Republican vote.
Andy Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
There is no such thing as a Republican filibuster. Right now, the only ones who can stand in the way of giving the American people meaningful health care reform are our elected Democratic Senators.
Robert Creamer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
If a Democratic Senator votes to prevent his party from having an up or down vote on its top domestic priority, he is endangering the political lives of his swing district colleagues. That would be unforgivable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
"One or two votes shy" of the public option means Reid is allowing members of the Democratic caucus to threaten a filibuster behind closed doors and dictate what will be in the bill he brings to the floor.
Paul Loeb | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Forcing Senators like Nelson, Baucus, and Lincoln to respond to the American public, through a petition, would be the right thing politically as well as morally.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics
First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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.
Suzanne Langlois | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics