Speaking before what was described as a friendly crowd at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Sen. Mary Landrieu said she was opposed to much of...
Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home
Following in the hoofsteps of President Bush's 2006 State of the Union call to fight the creation of "human-animal hybrids", Sen. Sam Brownback this week introduced legislation outlawing "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species." The bill has 20 co-sponsors, all but one of them -- Mary Landrieu -- Republicans. Minotaurs, centaurs, mermaids, and satyrs everywhere vowed to vote Democrat. No word on whether Michael Steele plans to woo these diverse human-animal populations with a combination of fried-chicken, potato salad, and young men from Athens (reportedly the Minotaur's favorite). Elsewhere, John McCain delivered the most dizzying quote of the week, spinning Sarah Palin's resignation thusly: "I don't think she quit. I think she changed her priorities."
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
The day before six centrist Senators signed a letter to halt health care reform, citizens were lining up for health care provided by Remote Area Medical, a non-profit relief corps dedicated to providing free health care.
Paul Blumenthal | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Six senators called for a seventy day hold on voting on health care reform legislation today. Each of these senators has raised at least $1 million from the health and insurance sectors over their careers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
A bipartisan group of centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideratio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
Great news, everyone! At some point last week, Senators Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) must have finished fighting all the terrorist...
Mike Lux | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
If the Democrats twist up this bill to make insurance companies and their Republican allies happy, it is end of story for this generation of Dems -- our party will not recover from screwing up health care.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Sadly, the main figures who will likely end up blocking the health care plan are not Republicans, but a small handful of Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the Senate.
The Plumline | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
President Obama may have issued a private demand that groups allied with the White House stop hammering moderate Democratic Senators with health care ...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics
"We shouldn't be focusing resources on each other," Obama said, "We ought to be focused on winning this debate." But winning the healthcare debate for whom?
Dan Sweeney | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe lost a huge amount of power yesterday. The battle to get to 60 votes was focused primarily on them, but now the focus will be on moderate Democrats rather than moderate Republicans.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
I have just finished watching the Sunday talk shows. All in all -- and this from a Sunday morning talk show junkie -- a pretty poor excuse for analysis of what's going on in Washington.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) took quite the political heckling in Nebraska the past few weeks. Both he and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) have come under fire...
Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
Witnessing the recent blaze of right-wing propaganda on a public health care option has felt like watching a scene in a scary movie where the killer is creeping up on his victim with a knife.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) pledged her support for a public health care option less than six months before she announced opposition to such a plan, ac...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said on Tuesday that she is opposed to the creation of a public health care plan patients could opt into that would compete...
The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Democrats from oil- and gas-producing states are pushing back against the Obama administration's plans to end tax breaks for U.S. energy companies. D...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
The Senate takes up the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights on Tuesday, a package sponsored by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) that seeks to rein in certain ...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dick Durbin announced Monday night that after weeks of negotiations between Senate Democrats and the financial industry, a compromise had been re...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
UPDATE 3/26: Cantor defends attending the Britney concert There was more than one whip at last night's Britney Spears concert in Washington DC. ...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...
TPMDC | Brian Beutler | August 27, 2009, 9:00AM | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics