I got an email (along with scores of others, including someone in Utah) from MNGOP Deputy Chair candidate Michael Brodkorb last night. The point of this piece was to attack current Deputy Chair Dorothy Fleming for saying the party should not be focusing on redistricting right now at an event over th...

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE Satire by Shawn Goodwin My fellow Americans, it is with great pleasure that I am able to speak with you today. I am truly honored to be serving as your Pres.. - darn it, your Secretary of State. Please excuse me for one moment. Bill? Bill? Is that you...

Hey, what do you know? I had this as speculation on my blog late last night!! Thanks TPM for doing the legwork and getting the story. Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand will be taking Hillary Clinton’s spot in the Senate. watch the video: From AP: Gillibrand, 42, has been considered one of the t...

In case you missed Our View with myself and my co-host Patsy a little while ago, for a brief while we talked about Secretary of State, dear Madam Secretary, Hillary Clinton arriving for her first day on the job today. I have to say, I was among those in the "why in God's name would she take that job...

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 ...

SENATE CONFIRMS HILLARY CLINTON: The Senate has confirmed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in a 94-2 vote, with only Jim “Every Sentence Must Have ‘God’ In It” DeMint and David “Fucking” Vitter voting against. John Cornyn put down his hearty opposition to the...

So much for this: On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics. We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. &n...

Wednesday Evening News Roundup Note to MSNBC: upgrade your servers!!!  From 7 p.m. to midnight Eastern Standard Time, it is nearly impossible to watch any of the videos (Countdown with Keith Olbermann , The Rachel Maddow Show). You need more bandwidth! Peter Bergen, counterterrorism expert, has a f...

Via Fox from Hillary Clinton's confirmation hearing yesterday, for her new position as Secretary of State for the Obama administration. Thank you, Senator Schumer, for your generous introduction, and even more for your support and our partnership over so many years. You are a valued and trusted coll...

  I know Senator David Vitter (R-La.) was just trying to score some cheap political points with his base today with his intense questioning of Hillary Clinton and donations made to her husband’s foundation at her confirmation hearing before the senate foreign relations committee. I’ll a...