Month: February 2010

I’d like to add to Ezra Klein’s fine piece on the primacy of process that despite people thinking they understand process better than policy, they absolutely do not. In fact, even the most studious political junkie...

I found a transcript of the proceedings at the Democratic Senate Conference today. I wanted to read it because Blanche Lincoln and Evan Bayh both used their opportunity to ask the president a question to bash their own party and...

Steve Benen is right when he points out that the Republicans used to show some deference to military leaders. But now that the military has more progressive views on homosexuality and torture than the Republican’s rabid...

President Obama spoke to the Senate Democratic Conference today and he pointed something out. Last year the Senate cast more cloture votes than were cast in the 1950’s and 1960’s combined. In other words, as he put...

The State of the Union speech given last Wednesday by President Obama was a major event and the focus of several polls.  Though Gallup reported that, historically, support for the President is not affected by the State...