edited by: David Miller,
Utah Editor
Something the 'Baggers can never explain is the odd timing of their "movement.""A 60-year-old Port Huron woman threatened to take a" [...]
Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have each been targeted by the opposition to join a Republican filibuster. If that happens, health insurance reform will not move forward.
We can't sit on the sidelines while this political drama unfolds. And right' [...]
They'll just take any famous person. Issues and message never mattered. Not since GOPAC developed the campaign in a box.
Balloon Boy. Octomom. The FreeCreditReport.com' [...]
They'll just take any famous person. Issues and message never mattered. Not since GOPAC developed the campaign in a box.
Balloon Boy. Octomom. The FreeCreditReport.com' [...]
A group of Republican senators, including Utah's Bob Bennett, filed a bill Tuesday to stop the Treasury Department from extending the Troubled Asset Relief Program for another 10 months.
Via Political Wire:
“This is an administration hell-bent toward taking American towards a socialist country," Perry remarked. "And we all don’t need to be afraid to say that because that’s what it is.”
Perry praised tea party activists, who have challenged [...]
Nice (freedom killing job killing illegal immigrant protecting! Grrrr!) "mash-up" video that illustrates the hissy-fit GOPers invoked to cover for their intellectual bankruptcy so far in the health care debate.I'm trying to follow the goings on in the House as closely as possible.Friday night comedy. New ad from the ever-so-in touch American Future Fund. 
Trouble a-brewin' for Texas GOP.The Monkey Cage might be on to something when it comes to understanding the breakdown of California's legislative process.Urgent news: Multiple media reports say that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is very close to rounding up the votes needed for a public health insurance option, but "the White House is pushing back against the idea" in order to get the support of Sen. [...]
I can't think of any two Reps. better suited to be supporting each other into the history books. Chapter 7: Bat-shit stew.Trailer for a documentary submitted to the Sundance Film Festival (and others). Via Pam's House Blend:Interesting discussion via bloggingheads.tv:
So ridiculously entertaining, I'm stealing the whole thing from Sadly No.I’m sure some focus-group weasel will force them to take this down soon, but for the time being, this is actually the title of Michael Steele’s official blog at the GOP website:
WOOOOOORD!!! You' [...]
So, it is reviews of products and services that are the stuff of concern. Our advice to bloggers: Tell the truth about your experience and how that experience came about. Then you will have nothing to worry about [...]
The Washington Post's Anne Kornblut today produces an extreme piece of government-serving, stenographic "journalism," publishing a dubious administration press release masquerading as a lengthy news article on Obama's approach to Terrorism and civil liberties. The Post depicts Obama as heavily and heroically engaged in disrupting the [...]
That famous line, attributed to Jesus in Luke 23:34, could well apply to the folks at Conservapedia -- the "conservative version" of Wikipedia -- who have embarked on a project to rewrite [...]
Seriously, my wingnut friends...Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced the measure Monday. In a release, they said the bill “eliminates retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program.”
The four senators, all liberal Democrats, emphasized [...]
Max Baucus' price tag. Put this ad on TV in Montana.The local coroner has confirmed that the word "Fed" had been written on Bill Sparkman's chest when he was found dead earlier this month.
Jim Trosper, the Clay County coroner, confirmed the information to TPMmuckraker moments ago, adding that the word appeared to have been written [...]
The truth is that Republicans are more interested in attacks and instilling fear than they are in making tough decisions on the important issues facing Americans.
If you had any doubts that 2010 is an important year or thoughts about sitting [...]
It's like a cage-match for the title of village idiot. In 3-D.As a political proposition, this circumstance should concern the GOP even more, since most of those people harboring racial resentment think the Republican Party should be their voice on [...]
News Flash: If the public option really does cost $1 trillion over ten years, the House bill covers 54.4 percent of the costs just by increasing taxes on the rich to pre-Bush era levels. These figures do not include cost reductions in other programs nor do they [...]
Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the Obama administration,This paragraph is buried deep within their latest piece on Boehner's efforts to keep up with the GOP base:
Sources say they [Boehner and Cantor] have been especially wary of the possible damage inflicted [...]While 2010 will be chock-full of exciting races at all levels of government. In 2009, though, there will be two marquee races across the country: the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Republicans are favored in both races, but both [...]
Remember when Senator Bennett didn't think twice about bailing out the financial industry. Well now Senator Bennett is all up in arms when an industry that actually produces something' [...]
As we observe another day of remembrance for those who've fallen in service to this country, we should also think of those still working hard in our military. Having served in the Coast Guard for nearly ten years, I continue to be deeply concerned for the well being' [...]
As many of you know, over the last five days, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, in partnership with a number of progressive organizations and blogs including Senate Guru, asked those in the netroots, "Should a Draft Sestak movement be" [...]
The way that Utah's legislative districts are constructed are joke to Democracy. Bob has a nice list with the worst gerrymandered districts in Utah and a list of his favorite gerrymandered districts in Utah.
To see the problem check out the map of district 8.
See how Ogden' [...]
Well, this is interesting. It looks like Democrats will have an at-least-somewhat-prominent candidate for Senate in 2010:
Popular deli chain owner Sam Granato will run for Sen. Bob Bennett's seat in 2010.
Granato, who owns several Granato's delis throughout the Salt Lake [...]
{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.}
Before Arlen Specter's Party switch announcement yesterday, the Senate's Democratic caucus stood at 58 members. Senator-elect Al Franken represented Democrats' 59th vote toward cloture, still short of reliably ending Republican filibusters. But now, with Specter joining' [...]
