Senator Dick Durbin , the senior senator from Illinois and the No.2 democrat in the US Senate asked Roland Burris, the junior senator from Illinois  to consider resigning based on all the information that’s emerged in the last few weekes. And guess what Burris did? He politely declined!!...

For once, I am ahead of the game. I have now interviewed ALL of the declared candidates for governor in 2010, and have written about them in my Sunday column. Of course, there's only one so far: Sen. Vincent Sheheen, Democrat from Camden. I don't know who will be the next candidate to declar...

More specifically, why do Democratic Senator Ben Nelson and Republican Senator Susan Collins hate American children, American firefighters, American poor, American women, American scientists and other such undesirables? Oh, they love banks and giving OUR money to financial fraudsters. But money for ...

There are over 400 pages in this report, so I urge you to read the whole thing. Of course the one question that comes to mind is, if they knew and documented all of this, why did they not impeach? Does that not make Congress guilty of enabling the imperial presidency? Yes. The report calls for an in...

Race is NOT an issue when it comes to seating Roland Burris as the junior Senator from Illinois at least it shouldn’t have been but obviously it has become an issue. I guess that’s why Dick Durbin, Harry Reid and news anchors alike keep talking about it. Just a few hours ago Dick Durbin ...

After reading VL’s post, I got to thinking about something Chris Bowers wrote awhile ago about how if the Democrats lost this election, it would be a failure of the party and the entire party leadership should resign. I think this may be how we could achieve party unity - by holding party offi...

canuckgal (via eRobin) notes that the furor over Obama’s chief economic advisor assuring a Canadian official that BO’s anti-NAFTA remarks lately weren’t serious but merely whimsical, light-hearted, unserious “campaign rhetoric” has heated up. The Obama advisor was name...

It was perhaps inevitable that once our political system was captured by corporate interests, there would come a time when virtually all the candidates available to us were hypocrites. We’re looking at that time now on the national level. All three candidates still standing are corporate conse...

We still have a ways to go before the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are officially decided. But it's not too soon to start thinking about the selection of running mates....

Glenn Greenwald drove the point home in his Salon blog this morning that the Democrats remain, under DLC leadership, tied to playing monkey-see/monkey-do with the GOP despite the fact that Republicans and their policies are reviled throughout the country. Substantial attention has been paid to the h...