I’m afraid that TPM writer Brian Beutler’s “Biggest Challenge” piece is actually more “noise” than “touchstone” as David Kurtz calls it. It is absolutely the left-of-center CW that Obama should not have parroted GOP fiscal rhetoric, particularly on the debt. I hear it every day. It is, no doubt, true. The trouble with the “touchstone” [...]

GOP Candidate (!) Gov. Buddy Roemer talks sense about ending the legal bribery in Congress (and the White House) and the nonsense of corporation personhood.

You’ve seen the historic abuse of the filibuster becoming standard procedure. Now the unprecedented economic blackmail we just lived through and are fated to revisit all too soon reveals a frighteningly undemocratic new normal for how business is conducted in the Nation’s capital. The thought occurs, why haven’t we seen this before?  Why haven’t we [...]

Here’s how people could enact this amendment despite Congress’ hesitation to restrict the ready flow of cash into their campaign coffers.

As any average person will tell you, the heart of the problem is that elected officials take money from interested parties.

Whether it’s technically legal or not, accepting money as a public servant is a form of bribery, and it serves to fundamentally corrupt democracy.

We don’t let cops, customs agents, or federal judges take money from the people they’re serving. We should hold elected officials to the same standards. They should be out of the fundraising business altogether.

To pull this off you would first need an underlying constitutional amendment to provide a solid foundation. So here it is, in less than twenty words…

As confused and disgusted as liberals may be right now at President Obama and the Conservadems, things may actually be worse than they are giving them credit for. For the most part, liberal criticism (short of liberal Barack Derangement Syndrome, popular particularly among the PUMAs) falls along two lines…

UPDATE: DRAFT ED PETITION Where would the Anti-Beck, Ed Schultz be more effective?  Should he run for the Senate as requested by retiring Senator Byron Dorgan and the party elders, that august body that deliberates the sweeping changes this nation so desparately needs at a glacial pace?  Or should he remain in broadcasting, fighting the [...]

Live by the wiretap, die by the wiretap.

The top and bottom ten Democratic Congress Critters and Senators based on their lifetime progressive voting record relative to the political leanings of their voting districts.

Good to see someone remember they’re Democrats.