There were lots of interesting panels and great speeches at Netroots Nation this week, but the confrontation between Lt. Dan Choi who was discharged under DADT was probably the emotional highlight.
Here's a new twist to the victim card. Sharron Angle says that Harry Reid is "trying to hit the girl." “It is also the corruption in Washington, DC that is…
I doubt this is an issue that the election commission in Nevada ever thought they'd have to deal with. Voters dressed in chicken costumes will not be allowed inside Nevada…
Harry Reid as the Comeback Kid? A Republican civil war and some rather, well, fowl comments about health care might just be giving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a fresh…
Well, today was supposed to be the first day of the rest of our lives, climate change legislationally-speaking. John Kerry, Joe Leiberman, and Lindsey Graham were set to publicly unveil…
I was wrong that Republicans don't have new ideas! Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sue Lowden thinks health care reform is wrong and she has a better idea: Sue Lowden, the…
I'd like to start this post with a sincere wish for the rapid recovery of Harry Reid's wife and daughter, who were in a serious car accident yesterday. Health care reform looks more certain to pass any day now. One hold-up has been the distrust between the House and the Senate. The Senate is now an almost completely dysfunctional body and the House is worried that the fixes to the health care bill will not see action. There are now at least 54 Senators on board with reconciliation for the sidecar bill containing fixes to the Senate bill and Harry Reid has sent a letter of notice to Mitch McConnell that Democrats are going to pursue reconciliation:
This sounds like welcome news to me. Via Ezra Klein and Sam Stein of HuffPo, there is starting to be some serious talk about filibuster reform. Yesterday at a reporters' briefing, Harry Reid had some interesting comments about the present and future of Senate procedure.
Harry Reid has come under fire for his statements about the benefits of President Obama's speech patterns. The statement in question is that then-candidate Obama didn't speak in "the negro…
Commenter anon points us to this video that Charlie Copeland highlighted at Resolute Determination apparently approvingly: Copeland adds: There is nothing that I could add. Indeed. Sarah Palin speaks for…
Harry Reid is holding a press conference starting at 3:15 to announce the details of the health care bill that will voted on by the Senate. Early reports say that…
If it wasn't obvious to you before that Harry Reid, whose ancestor may have been horse thief and a train robber, was going to be a problem for President Obama,…