The message from the voters last November was clear. Telling ourselves "we don't have the votes now, so what's the point" doesn't cut it.
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics
[co-authored with Susan Chenelle of United for Peace and Justice; see below.] A clear majority of the people of this country want decisive steps to e...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics
The Democratic chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee said today that he was ready to go to the mat with President Bush over further ...
Washington Post | Jon Cohen, Dan Balz | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
Most Americans oppose fully funding President Bush's $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a sizeable majority supports an ex...
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics
Congress trades unlimited war funding for two new justices. What would the backlash on that scenario be?
Harry Shearer | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
It's arguable that the laughably low approval rating the public gives Congress is attributable to that body's failure to move the ball one inch down the field.
Bill Maher | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
Bush is fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. They fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq, and cooked the books to keep us there. "The surge" is simply another in a long series of inflated stock quotes.
Susan Madrak | Posted 09.27.2007 | Politics
Just about everything is too expensive for these fiscally-responsible Republicans except war and more war.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.22.2007 | Politics
After smothering efforts by war critics in Congress to drastically cut U.S. troop levels in Iraq, President Bush plans to ask lawmakers next week to a...
Denver Post | Posted 09.17.2007 | Politics
Congress should look at cutting off funding for the Iraq war if Senate efforts to change the role of U.S. troops in the battlefield fail, Sen. Ken Sal...
Rep. John Murtha | Posted 09.17.2007 | Politics
When letters go unanswered, when suggestions go ignored, when the pleas of the public fall on deaf ears, how are the American people expected to continue to support flawed policies and undefined missions?
Des Moines Register | THOMAS BEAUMONT | Posted 09.16.2007 | Home
Each of six Democratic presidential candidates, appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry in Indianola, argued to the most active core of p...
The Swamp | Mike Dorning | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics
Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin promised today that he would no longer vote to fund the war in Iraq unless the money is tied to a withdra...
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
UPDATE 12/2: Marc Ambinder is reporting that Jeb Bush is considering a run for the Senate to...
President Bush let it all out today during an interview with ABC News' Charlie...
this just in: Governor Palin Neglects Alaska Duties for Partisan Stumping on...
The following is Part I of Sean Penn's piece, Mountain of Snakes (Read Part II here) The
Last week, Black Friday heralded the unofficial kickoff of the 2008 winter holiday...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
NEW YORK — Rush Limbaugh has seldom been a fan of...
Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
CHICAGO — Almost one in five young American adults has a personality disorder that interferes...
Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
Sen. Russ Feingold | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics