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Whether or not one agrees with his position on health care reform, Alan Grayson made a heck of a case on the floor of the House yesterday; He also played Republican games with Republicans, by pointing out a Harvard Study that supports the idea that over 40,000 Americans die each year becuase of lack of [...]

Alan Grayson:
They understand that if Barack Obama were to cure world hunger tomorrow, they would blame him for overpopulation.
They understand that if Barack Obama were to somehow bring about world peace, they would blame him for destroying the defense industry.
In fact, they understand that if Barack Obama has a BLT tomorrow for lunch, they will [...]

In front page news today, the Chicago Tribune, and the Fox Channel, noted that the word “conservative” is out. Conservatives shall no longer refer to themselves as conservatives, which has become too associated with the ideas of large, imperial, self righteous and overly intrusive government at the expense of individual liberty, authoritarianism at the hands [...]

—The Bush Administration’s Executive Order 13423, signed Jan. 24, 2007, set energy efficiency targets, as well as tried to increase government efficiency on use of Energy.  Yesterday, October 5, “President Obama signed an Executive Order (attached) today that sets sustainability goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making improvements in their environmental, energy and economic [...]

Chris Matthews says some incredible things at the beginning of this video, but truly, there is little that is more incredible than this statement at around minute :30.
How come you knew that the way to beat these guys was to put em on defense.
The common sense mind boggles. It reels.  Very uncharacteristically, it grasps for [...]

This is a Michael Moore Dilemma, and it is one that is created by the far right, and somewhat lopsidedly, played into by the media.
Full Disclosure:  We are not fans of Michael Moore.  Some on the left may likely get angry with that statement, and dismiss what we are trying to do (somewhat comically, since there [...]

Alan Grayson:
[Democrats] bought into this storyline that there was a need for bipartisan. The Republicans never intended anything resembling bipartisanship, not on this issue, not on any other issue.
But why is it always Democrats that have to be bipartisan.  While the Republican Party has shifted further and further to the right, it is always Democrats [...]

Today, David Brooks doing what he does best;  and that is, miss the real story.
Brook’s aforelinked column, is a good one, in one sense.  It teaches some history.
In another sense, it is atrocious.
Brooks:  Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, have no power because they can not merely summon a wish, and have millions act upon their specific command. 
Wow, they [...]

Rarely seen footage from summer of 2001:   At a political values forum, Congressional representative [ name not given] called then President Bush, not a year into his new term in office, an “enemy of humanity.”
Conservatives went nuts.
Actually, we made that up.  What we are not making up, at least, reportedly, is this real news:
A Republican [...]