Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) joined Howard Dean and many others on the left when he expressed his disappointment over the Obama Administration's failure to lead in health care, or failure put up even a minimal fight for the public option.
Apparently there are now 60 votes for the senate's health care 'reform' bill. Ben Nelson is on board because he got another compromise on abortion and because he got a hefty bribe of money for Medicaid in his state, but not in my state, nor in [...] 
Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is way out front in California's GOP primary race. It will be interesting to see if Whitman gets hit with the same barrage of sexism that tried so hard to derail Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, but right now that's not [...] 
The 30 Democrats who voted against the prescription drug importation amendment -- which would permit Americans to get affordable drugs from Canada -- include John Kerry, Harry Reid and Chris Dodd. Only 17 Republicans voted against the amendment. See the full list of [...] 
Ian Welsh has penned an excellent post that summarizes the demoralized state of America and gives Obama's his due credit. If Obama were honest, he'd use Ian Welsh's post for his State of the Union speech, but he's not. 
"We'll allow the safe reimportation of low-cost drugs from countries like Canada."
Harry Reid could have waited longer to permit a vote on the life-saving single payer amendment, maybe Christmas day would have worked for him?
Now why would Democrats -- the party that swore it fully supported the right to import unbelievably cheap drugs from Canada -- lead the way in killing the drug importation bill? After all, the Dems told us that it was only the Evil Republicans who [...] 
The U.S. Senate has rejected a plan to import low-price prescription drugs from Canada. And that would be because the millionaires in the U.S. Senate have no need of cheap drugs. So the millionaire senators decree that ordinary Americans don't get cheap drugs either. After' [...] 
This piece from Germany called "Poor America" could easily be titled: "Pity America." Anyone who doesn't pity the people of America has not been paying attention to the sham of a health care reform debate conducted by America's self-serving leaders.
Here's a creative response to the worldwide patriarchal tradition of expressing contempt for girls and women by shaming boys and men with taunts that they are like girls. Some men respond by dressing themselves in women's mandated clothing. Better late than never. [Watch [...] 
Annise Parker and the voters of Houston, Texas just made history. It's official. Texas is more progressive than Tennessee -- and many other states.
Jenny Sanford is a woman who is Not standing behind her man. This could catch on.
It's official. The Senate Dems finally finished killing the public option. Now there's talk of a Medicare buy in that's not really a buy in. The details are a secret. If there is anything in the secret details that benefit actual people instead of [...] 
Martha Coakley won big in the Democratic primary which means she will BE Massachusetts' first-ever woman in the US Senate. And Massachusetts calls itself progressive.
Some of my favorite women -- Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Jehmu Greene, Jodie Evans, all from the Women's Media Center -- have created a website worth checking out. Called, Not Under the Bus (see the ad in sidebar), the site takes aim at [...] 
The election for Ted Kennedy's seat is tomorrow (12/8/09) and Martha Coakley is raking in the liberal and feminist endorsements. Bill Clinton's endorsement is especially heartening after Nancy Pelosi came out for the male candidate, again. Speaker Pelosi is fast becoming the woman's version of [...] 
Turncoat Joe Lieberman is happily bragging that President Obama is no longer even talking about the public option. Is anyone surprised? 
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Looking for gifts for young girls or for your adult feminist friends? The Girls Are Not Chicks coloring book includes gems like: 
"America has become one big, crappy reality show."
In a piece provocatively titled, Don't just swallow it, Linda Hirshman expresses frustration about the disempowered status of American women. From Hyde to Stupak -- women 'swallow' whatever Democrats and Republicans shove down our throats, argues Hirshman. 
Still in hot pursuit of its prey -- all the intimate details of Tiger Woods' life -- the media has scored again. Tiger Woods has posted an apology for cheating on his wife. But as the cable news channels whine endlessly: Tiger didn't tell [...] 
The women for peace at Code Pink are preparing to confront the new war president. Anti war protesters will gather at the White House tonight. Yet more anti war protesters will be at West Point when the new war president shows up to [...] 
The Florida Highway Patrol is after Tiger Woods' medical records, according to TMZ, in order to determine if his injuries are from an auto accident or from domestic violence.
Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Vice Presidential slot on the 2012 ticket? Making her the Democratic presidential candidate for 2016? Who's to say if this is a hot rumor or an actual leak? The naysayers once thought that Hillary as Secretary of State was a [...] 
An eight-year-long worldwide study by researchers at Harvard and McGill Universities confirms that the U.S. lags far behind the modern nations of the world, as well as a great many of the not-so-modern nations. 
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There really is no hope for Andrew Sullivan. After feverishly devouring Sarah Palin's book, Sully tried to write another chapter on Palin's "incredible fifth pregnancy," but alas, the man needs more material. Sarah's world is "so imaginary and magical," and she is such an [...] 
Oprah's final show will air on Sept 9, 2011. TV will not be the same without her. I'm not the only one who's sad to hear it:
Speaking of unhinged grips on reality, Andrew Sullivan has suspended blogging because it is vital that the womb envious man devote all of his time to reading Sarah Palin's book, especially the "fantastic story of her fifth pregnancy." Because the project of exposing the [...] 
Obama says he has restored America's standing in the world. Yeah, well, I think Michael Moore has a better grasp of where America stands.
And I thought the cover of the latest Newsweek signaled a new low in what passes for American journalism. Hah. Inside the once reputable news magazine, readers are treated to the Sarah Palin-As-A-Slutty-Schoolgirl Doll! (p. 33, illustrating Christopher Hitchens’s article.) [via Media Matters] [...] 
What do Sarah Palin and Hillary Rodham Clinton have in common? For starters, how about the fanatical misogynistic disdain and contempt of the likes of Eugene Robinson, Chris Matthews, Andrew Sullivan and Newsweek's Jon Meacham? All of whom remind me relentlessly that I am beyond [...] 
Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, the male pundits prayed that Sarah Palin will go away. The men wondered aloud: Why are we talking about Sarah Palin? There are so many important issues to talk about. 
Broadcasting phony half nude images of women politicos is what passes for great moments of journalism over at sexist MSNBC. In the clip below, good old boy Dylan Ratigan treats his viewers to photo-shopped images of Sarah Palin -- in a bikini and in a [...] 
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Levi Johnston took his clothes off for the Playgirl photo shoot yesterday, according to folks who caught up with Johnston at the "Fleshbot awards." As speculated earlier, the timing certainly suggests that Levi is indeed planning for his Playgirl photo spread to be published [...] 
MSNBC's Nancy Snyderman and NOW President Terry O'Neill discuss anti-choice lawmakers and the Stupak Coat-hanger Amendment, in the video clip below. The women agree that the IRS should investigate the undue influence of Catholic bishops on Congress. 
Kate Michelman (former president of NARAL) and Frances Kissling (former president of Catholics for Choice) take the Democratic Party and President Obama to task for their betrayal of women: 
Oprah talks about her encounter with and interview of Sarah Palin in the video clip below. Palin wrote on Facebook:
Digby speaks for a flaming chorus of women who have had it with a male-dominated culture that bends over assbackwards to accommodate every real and imagined need of men while balking at the most basic of services for women:
The system is rigged. This video is a lot more lighthearted about that fact than I feel. 
Uh-0h. Sean Hannity has been caught in the act of making up some more faux news. No surprise. Fox News holds the record for manipulating the news. In the video clip below, the world's favorite media critic Jon Stewart presents the evidence and demonstrates conclusively' [...] 
Rihanna, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, Maya Angelou and Amy Poehler were among this year's deserving winners. Just for fun, the video below is comprised of highlights from Glamour's Women of the Year Awards. Bill Clinton was there, as were most of the award winning [...] 
"There’s no question that Hillary Clinton would have fought for our rights. There’s no question that she would have understood the devastating implications of the Stupak-Pitts amendment. She would not have countenanced the Democratic leadership."
This is really odd. In the video clip below there is an actual panel of women discussing women's rights. On a cable news channel?!? I almost fell off my chair. Granted it's on CNN's poor sister channel HLN, but still, broadcasting women talking about women's [...] 
Alice Rossi's The Feminist Papers was one of my first favorite feminist books. She made a huge contribution. She will be missed: 
File this one under where's that desperately needed 3rd party? And whatever happened to NOW's 1990s discussion about starting a women's party? 
Maybe He-Man Dylan Ratigan is trying to get his sinking ratings up, or maybe he is just continuing the MSNBC tradition of hating women.
This is great. Sarah Palin should appear on late night tv more often. Clearly, the audience agrees. 
"When it's one person it's a humiliation and feels like a rejection. When it's twelve, he's mentally ill at this point."
This is funny. SNL presents a Sarah Palin spoof which portrays Palin as so powerful that all of civilization would crumble were she to become president.
Palin's Nov. 20 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters was previewed earlier today on Good Morning America:
