Month: May 2007

The House failed (220-203) to override the President’s veto. You can compare the roll call to the original vote (218-212). Not much of interest changed. Wayne Gilchrest and Walter Jones remain the only two Republicans to...

Of the top three Dem candidates, it’s clear that John Edwards is the most progressive. The two main reasons I have had reservations about him up until now is that he has not come out in favor of single-payer health...

As Progressive Democrats, we tend to focus more on the role of government in society and less on specific or wedge issues than our opponents on the extreme right.  Yet, every so often there is a specific issue or campaign...

Today some of the high-traffic blogs are asking their readers to contact Rep. Steny Hoyer because Hoyer is seeking a compromise on continued funding of the Iraq war. This post will confine itself to the strategy employed.Steny...

Despite the furor over whether Al Qaida in Iraq’s leader was killed or not, the story highlights one of the central flaws in the way the “War on Terror” has been both sold to the American Public, and the manner...