Shorter Verbatim Susan Collins: "I feel I have to vote for the Blunt amendment with the hope that its scope will be further narrowed and refined as the legislative process proceeds." Oh. One wonders if this justification is intentionally incoherent, so that the Maine voters...
Author: Scott Lemieux
So, there was a debate in the World's Worst Deliberative Body about whether to allow employers the right to deny employees health care coverage based solely on the religious beliefs.
I have a piece up at the Prospect arguing that what Greg Sargent sees a nightmare scenario is in fact a dream scenario if we expand our time horizons a.
R.I.P. Sad that this report was accurate. ...a good way of putting it.
This George W. Bush nominee to the District Court seems to be using the Carl Paladino defense for his racist email: The judge acknowledged that the content of the email.
Rick Santorum was a victim of liberal persecution, receiving lower grades than he surely deserved because of his political views. Who can doubt it? Why, his American history professor probably.
And it's misogyny all the way down.
Mitt Romney, the luckiest man on the face of the earth: Rick Santorum is the latest Romney opponent who has failed in almost every way a candidate can fail. He.
Obviously, I'm not changing my mind about the direction of the race after a Romney sweep. Michigan does make me understand why some people are stubborn about seeing a race.
Looks like the Tea Patry has chased her off. Good; would seem like an almost certain Dem pickup, and it's not like having someone who added a moderate patina to the Republican Party while voting like Jeff Sessions on most crucial issues was doing any...
I dunno Newt, I'd have to say "would make Andrew Jackson enraged" is pretty much a minimum qualifying standard to be president of the United States in 2012.
Ah, Mittens, a man with the courage to ask the most vulnerable to make sacrifices in order to finance upper-class tax cuts. Finally, a man willing to speak hard truths..