It depends on who you ask, but Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday that health reform legislation is “still on the one yard line.” Other prominent Democrats, such as Evan Bayh and Howard Dean, suggest that we dump that House turkey and start all over again.
Who’s right?

As a lifelong Democrat (currently in recovery towards thinking entirely for myself), I can empathize with how great it must feel to be in charge again. Gloat, revel, wallow, rejoice–for a little while. But Democrats appear to have forgotten a couple of things. And for that there are no excuses.

I’m not at all happy with politicians these days. But there are a few I trust to be courageous and sincere, even if I don’t always agree with all of their positions. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is one of them. He is taking on Arlen “I-was-Republican-until I realized I couldn’t win another term-so-I-became-a-Democrat” [...]

Dear Democracy,
We wish we could afford better flowers, but times are tough for most of us.

Nebraska, and Nebraska only, got a gift from the U.S. Senate. So Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) certainly assumed he would be greeted as a hero for his critical, last-minute vote in favor of the Senate health bill in exchange for a huge Medicaid tax break. Instead he found himself sprinting from a pizza [...]

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Notice, I said Harry Spins A Race, not Harry Spins Race. That “A” is important, because that is what concerns me far more than what some are calling Reid’s racist characterization of Obama.

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I grew up in Los Angles where the outside world was draped in a yellowish-grey miasma almost half the time. We even had a bravado chant to accompany our stinging eyes and hacking coughs: “If you can’t see it, don’t breathe it!”
It appears that the Obama era EPA is [...]

Forget “friendly fire,” “legally drunk,” ”working vacation,” “morbid humor” and the like.
Senator Harkin’s (D-Iowa) recent statement that “What we are buying here is a modest home, not a mansion. What we are getting here is a starter home” to describe the Senate version of Health Care “Reform” is the new granddaddy of all [...]

Behold this particular shoe. A simple little thing—basically a low back-walled sole with a “nude” plastic strap so it can’t fall off your feet. So, why does it symbolize an easily preventable and major failure of the Obama presidency?

bumped up for New Year’s Morning!

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
It’s hard to believe that Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics to this mind-blowing song 46 years ago. He might as well have penned it in 2009, a disaster year pretty much across the board. Or maybe things just haven’t changed as much [...]

[Update: Several commenters thought this was not for real. One would hope. But it was commissioned by the actual Rock the Vote organization. The response has not been favorable, and the resulting lame excuse flops. Expect the ad to be scrubbed from the RTV site.]
If there’s one thing our country does [...]

With a nod to fallen presidential wannabe, John Edwards, it looks like there are definitely Two Americas when it comes to who will be expressing thanks to whom this holiday season.

In a lighter moment, the State Department announced that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton engaged in some secret diplomacy with an “important international figure” at the North Pole. During that visit Clinton asked that her hopes for the New Year be fulfilled.

What is dampening the Christmas spirit for many is anger at the financial sector and the huge bonuses their executives got for screwing the rest of us over—twice.

At least once a week I like a real breakfast—you know, toast with a chunky berry jam, orange juice, hash browns, coffee, and a couple of eggs, sunny-side-up.
But when I became aware of how laying hens were kept, those eggs didn’t look quite the same. Now they were staring straight up at me, [...]