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Hotline the other day linked to a story hosted (unfortunately) by the AEI. However, the story itself is based on exit polling, and includes some fascinating numbers. Basically, some exit ...

Here at Dkos, and on the Internets in general, references to "Barack" and "John" and even "Dennis" aren't used to refer to candidates. But, one candidate is commonly referred to by her first name. ...

It is no exaggeration to state that Senator Clinton's detractors outnumber her supports by a wide margin at this site. Indeed, there are more diaries dedicated to trashing her here than there are ...

Kent Conrad is Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. He also is the only current Senator from a Red State to vote against the Iraq War Resolution. And he's a deficit hawk. In other words, he's ...

The Appropriations Committee voted today on the timeline for withdrawal from Iraq and the overall supplemental appropriation. Long story short: the vote was a victory for the good guys. ...

Over the weekend and into this week, there was a lot of excited chatter and angst over the Democratic response to Bush's inevitable veto of the supplemental funding bill and various candidate ...

There has been a lot of very, ahem, spirited debate amongst Democrats and progressives regarding a strategy to bring US troops home from Iraq and the role that the Congressional funding power would ...

Day by Day is a rightwing comic strip intended for rightwing Republican bloggers who think they're cool because they're Republicans with a computer or something. It is created by one Chris Muir. ...

For those outside of Iowa, Barack Obama and Chucky Grassley, who has been embarrassing Iowa since 1974, have been sparring over Iraq. Well, not exactly. They've been sparring over talking about ...

I can only assume that everyone on Daily Kos will join me in denouncing this candidate, who went on national television and undermined his own party. The gory details below the fold.

Apparently Senate Republicans didn't get the memo that Barack Obama only cares about making sure that everyone gets along. Obama's unabashedly pro-family and progressive amendment to the ...

As just about everyone knows, in September General David Petraeus is going to give a report on the success or failure of the 2007 escalation in Iraq. Obviously, that report will be a big deal (to ...

Seriously, it's one of the best diaries I've read here in weeks, and it's getting criminally ignored. Yes it's kinda long, but well worth the read. Anyhow, here's the link so you can go check it ...

The word 'triangulation' is one of the most overused words in the political lexicon. It's stale rhetoric just as it's a stale tactic. However, I think we need to come up with a new word--'...

Behind the scenes in Washington, the Progressive caucus has killed a proposal that would have let Congressional Republicans triangulate by pretending to vote against Bush but that would not have ...

The name of Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States is Mahmud Ali Durrani. The English translation of his name is "Tony Snow" I believe. He recently gave an interview which calls to mind ...

New York (Geek News Services) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reacted swiftly and sharply to the revelation that the Bush Administration had illegally spied on American citizens by fining ...

If one wants any proof that the years of tireless advocacy for healthcare reform and protecting the rights of children have paid some dividends, one need look no further than the Republican outrage ...

Hillary Clinton made a curious choice this week--release an ad decrying the Vast Rightwing Conspiracy (VRWC) while at the same time trying to combat her image as polarizing. Chris Dodd pounced, ...

The big lesson that everyone seems to have learned from New Hampshire is that polls simply can't be trusted. And that, thus, nobody really knows who's going to win Nevada. That's nonsense. ...

Recommend TomP's excellent diary on this subject! As in "lies." As in dishonesty, deceipt, and deception. As in, ...

There has been a lot of uproar about the disgraceful comments about women and Social Security made by Al Simpson, co-chair of the National Commission on ...

The great liberal/progressive revolt has begun in Congress. Feeling powerless to torpedo the tax deal Obama cut with the Republicans, House Democrats finally stood up for 'progressive' values in an ...

In the wake of the Arab Spring, President Obama felt he had to reboot US policy towards the so-called Israel/Palestine peace process. No longer could he rely on dictators to keep the peace with ...

Yair Netanyahu, oldest son of Israeli Prime Minister and a member of the IDF media relations unit, has gone ahead and committed the political crime of candor on his Facebook page.

When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , many critics tried to ...

Seeking perhaps to replicate the success of the Sarkozy-Cameron coalition against Gaddafi, it appears that David Cameron and Benjamin Netanyahu are pushing hard for an imminent strike on Iranian ...

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting to read anything enlightening beyond the usual hippy-bashing in the NY Post when they posted their "why Bloomy dunnit" article today. And, there was a little of ...

"This court would not only have to stretch, it would have to abandon and completely overrule a lot of modern precedent, which would do grave damage to this court, in its credibility and power. The ...

As you've probably heard, juror selection in the Scooter Libby trial has begun. And, apparently it's going to be a long, long process, if the Associated Press is to be believed. Their headline:

I'll make this short and sweet. In an attempt to follow up, tag-team style on the Edwards bloggerz flap, the 'national Catholic-based advocacy group" Fidelis has called upon Senators Clinton ...

Former Senator Alan K. Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming, has a startling opinion column in the Washington Post today. Startling because the headline is more honest and blunt on the issue of anti-