In college I met this guy off the Internet who was practically perfect. He was smart, gainfully employed, sexy as hell and he would take me out for ice cream and long walks. That last bit should have been a tip off. Sure enough, the conversations soon turned to talk about the importance of bombing I...

As in “Shit and fall back in it.” The Republican plans were completely repudiated in the last election, they are scrambling to try to dress up the brand, and their only solution is to try and obstruct an economic recovery. It seems they went off to their big annual meeting, and applauded...

What motivated Politico to take a two month-old story  about South Carolina GOP Senator Jim DeMint (picture at right is from that story) out of mothballs and put it out there right now? That question inevitably occurs to a careful reader of Manu Raju's "Republicans Chew on DeMint" story t...

Wednesday Evening News Roundup Hillary Clinton has been confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of State.  The final vote was 94-2.  Senator David Vitter, the one that’s been linked to prostitution rings in two cities, and Senator Jim DeMint (Republican from South Carolina) were the only two th...

Former Sen. Hillary Rodhamn Clinton was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today as the nation's new Secretary of State, with two lone holdouts in the entire Republican caucus. WASHINGTON - The Senate has confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton to become secretary of state. The Senate vote was overwhelmingly in ...

Item 1: The host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Chris Matthews, has decided not to join the race for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. In doing so he has resisted a groundswell of support from hard-of-hearing misogynists throughout the state. Some reports suggested that Matthews was only floating the cam...

Bob Cesca has a column out over there on Huffington Post entitled “What Doesn’t Kill The Far-Right Only Makes Them Crazier.” Clever title, Bob. And informative as well in how it details the whackjobiness going on among the GOP both in office and in the grass roots. Holy Crap, what ...

Presidential politics swept onto the floor of the Senate yesterday, as the three contenders took a rare break from the campaign trail to return to Washington, cast a few votes and spar over spending on government pork....

Presidential politics swept onto the floor of the Senate yesterday, as the three contenders took a rare break from the campaign trail to return to Washington, cast a few votes and spar over spending on government pork....

If this is the kind of double talk that we can expect from Berkeley, California... If this is the kind of thing that they mean by making apologies... If this is the kind of anti-American rhetoric we can expect... I say, let them secede. Help them to secede. Let's be done with it. Let them set their ...