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Our leaders know nothing. The daily blast of curtsies and pronouncement, fluff and feathers, smoke and mirrors is nothing more than humanity's peacock waltz - a full frontal disguise. Our badges and ...

False hope. "We can't have false hopes. We've got to have a person who can walk into that Oval office on day one and start doing the hard work that it takes to deliver change." - ...

There's been a lot of talk about Republicans crossing over to jeopardize the results in favor of a prolonged Democratic fight. Most commentators cite right-wing radio's call to vote for Hillary and ...

They all are for different people and to differing degrees. An LA Times blog dissects the recent NBC/WSJ poll. Interesting results below the break.

According to John "Anger Management" McCain's website, "accountability and transparency are the pillars of essential reform" (

This is just a short diary on a relatively easy action you can take - Now! Google has recently unveiled a new maps system that allows you to plan trips (...

Reid said he would consider writing a joint letter with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding that superdelegates make ...

John McCain is a racist, sexist bigot. Born in 1936, the year of FDR's second re-election, the beginning of the Spanish civil war, the publication of Gone With the Wind , and the completion ...

New York Times In the 26 states and the District of Columbia where registration data were ...

I gave in and made an open thread. Either this will be ignored and scroll into oblivion as new VP threads make their way into the noise, or we can distill all this fervor a little bit.

My mother broke her arm today; fell in the shower. She was at the hospital at 9AM. By 4PM still waiting for surgery. No, we're not Canadian! "Greatest health care in the world" ... At least she's ...

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It's got a name. And a website . The Obama Plan: Stability & Security for All Americans The site is divided into three ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are planning to vote early next week to admonish Republican Rep. Joe Wilson if he does not apologize on the House floor for yelling "You lie!" at ...

Sounds like a bad infomercial. Or sounds like an angry citizen who took direct action. Apparently one woman owed around $6,000 to Bank of America, who had upped her rates and fees because of ...

The Social Security Administration will announce that there will be no cost-of-living increase in 2010. This is because inflation rates continue to be in the negative. However, because Fed ...

There's this argument bubbling up time and again that the opt-out is actually good politically. Never mind policy implications; we think, any state that opts out will immediately see a political ...

The other open thread is quite dense. Alleged suspect is Major Nidal Hassan, M.D., supposedly a military psychiatrist. CNN has reported that ...

No, Bowie!* Is there water on the moon? “Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing ...

The National Flood Insurance Program of 1968 enacted protections for homes prone to flooding. When private insurers wouldn't provide coverage, the government offered insurance. This insurance is ...

Hello folks. The weekend is here. It's getting towards evening; the darkness may even be upon you now. Welcome it. Breathe it. Feel a nocturnal conversion coming. 'Cause thanks to the aptly-...

200,000 gallons of oil spewing out, per day, conservatively. "It's not as bad as I thought," said Rep. Gene Taylor (D-MS) on Saturday: that people shouldn't worry about the oil spill in the Gulf. ...

A lot of air and countless pixels have been spent on finding the appropriate historical analogy for the BP Gulf disaster. This has resulted in unfortunate comparisons as we attempt to comb history ...

Here's the scene: 2005. Bush just won re-election and plans to privatize social security. Congress passes his energy bill, written by lobbyists to subsidize the oil industry. Democrats just barely ...

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After saying he wouldn't accept stimulus money in 2009 (" We need a stimulus bill, just not this one. ...

Dear Dems, Yr doin it wrong! Okay, I usually dislike these diaries that pretend to have the magic bullet on messaging. But how about this? There are no tax cuts for the wealthy. There is only ...

I was embarrassed to read Bob Herbert's new op-ed in the New York Times today. One of the men behind the machinery of the ...

We're down to the last few hours -- a few hours that could make or break the progressive agenda over the next two years. Please take some time, after you've voted yourself, to get on the phones. ...

Lame-duck Congress turned things around. Some good, some bad. All surprising... Obama mid-term bashing pay off? Forty-eight percent of people questioned in the poll say they ...

Yes. Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi may have said some stupid things ...

A leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security lists possible motives and political connections the Arizona shooter may have had. The list includes a suspected link to the right-wing hate ...

While it looks likely for the House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, there's no reason not to fight it. As Bill Frist eloquently put, urging Republicans to drop repeal, this is "the law of ...

It's really up to us now. And I am resurrecting my old dkos account to remind everyone that action is far better than words! The polls, the chatter, the blogs -- the words! -- aren't going to be ...

Hello. I haven't visited here in a while, but I wanted to stop by and share why I am supporting and campaigning for Hillary Clinton for President. In 2008 I was for Obama, and I was very skeptical of