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Profile in Courage

John Bruhns | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Wmd, Articles of Impeachment, CIA Secret Prisons, Valerie Plame Wilson, Democrats Impeachment, Impeachment, Kucinich Iraq, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Cheney Impeachment, Democratic Party, Democrats, Kucinich Cheney, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Iraq War Veteran, Iraq WMD, Steny Hoyer, Dennis Kucinich, Nancy Pelosi, HR 333, Accountability, Torture, Politics News
John Bruhns

Kucinich demonstrated last week that he is willing to fight fire with fire when it comes to dealing with Bush and Cheney like no other Democrat has done yet.

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Bush Vetoes Dems' Health And Education Bill

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Budget Veto, Bush Vetos Health Bill, Children's Health Bill, Democrats, Bush, Politics News

President Bush, escalating his budget battle with Congress, on Tuesday vetoed a spending measure for health and education programs prized by congressi...

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Politically We're Frogs Not Noticing the Boiling Water

Chris Durang | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Russ Feingold, Mukasey Waterboarding, War With Iran, George W. Bush, Schumer Mukasey, Michael Mukasey, Dianne Feinstein, Iran, Mukasey Torture, Chuck Hagel, Feinstein Mukasey, Democratic Party, Democrats, Charles Schumer, Bush Administration, Feinstein Schumer, Kyl-Lieberman Iran, Waterboarding, Fisa, Politics News
Chris Durang

I think our country and the damage to our balance of powers means we're really in crisis, we're in water that is nearing a boil and we don't seem to know it.

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Max Follmer

Clinton's Planted Question...In 1999

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Presidential Race, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Planted Questions, Planted Questions, 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Politics News

Three days after Hillary Clinton's campaign was forced to admit it had planted a question at an Iowa campaign event, an eagle-eyed tipster noted that ...

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Obama is Not the Anti-Hillary

Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Obama, Iraq, Democrats, 2008, Clinton, Social Security, Meet the Press, Obama Kyl-Lieberman, Obama Iran, Obama Clinton, Obama on Meet the Press, Obama Washington Post, Obama Israel, Tim Russert, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

If you are a Hillary hater there's one candidate who isn't the anti Hillary. His name is Barack Obama. So if you're in his camp and you think he's got the answers, I suggest you check your idolatry.

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Edwards, Obama: The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend?

Politico.com | Ben Smith | Posted 11.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Presidential Race, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Iowa, Joe Trippi, Iowa Caucuses, Obama Edwards Collaboration, John Edwards, Obama and Edwards Against Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Obama Edwards, Politics News

They switched on the lights in the bar at the Hotel Fort Des Moines at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, and a crowd of two dozen buoyant young field organizers for S...

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Beginning Of The End

AP | MIKE GLOVER | Posted 11.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iowa Democratic Dinner, Iowa Jefferson Jackson Dinner, Chris Dodd, 2008 Elections, Joe Biden, Jefferson Jackson Dinner, Presidential Campaign, 2008 Election, Democrats, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Iowa Dinner, Iowa, John Edwards, Iowa Caucuses, Hillary Clinton, Fundraising, Presidential Candidates, Politics News

The race for the Democratic presidential nomination moved into overdrive Saturday, as candidates scrambled to outdo each other to win over the Iowa ac...

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IA: Skulking The Big Dogs Pre-JJ Dinner

Beverly Davis | Posted 11.10.2007 | Home

Read More: JJ Dinner, Democrats, Offthebus, Home News
Beverly Davis

It's early in the evening the night before the Iowa Democratic Party holds their annual Jefferson Jackson Day fundraiser, but already the nation's top political reporters are on the prowl in downtown Des Moines, dining and drinking the political Kool-Aid of the 2008 cycle, with the campaign big dogs that pull the strings behind the curtain.

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Senate Democrats: "We Were Against Mukasey Before We Were For Mukasey"

Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Clinton, Michael Mukasey, Harry Reid, Democrats, Barack Obama, Republicans, Lehey, Politics News
Steven G. Brant

George Carlin ends a very funny act by saying "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." With this reality-busting moment over Mukasey, I'm afraid he may be right.

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Sam Stein

Dem Iraq Funding Bill Is Most Aggressive Pursued Thus Far

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Funding, Funding, Democrats, Politics News

House Democratic leaders are slated to introduce the toughest-worded war funding resolution since taking office, one that would appropriate money only...

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What I Expect In 2008

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq, Immigration, Karl Rove, Election, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Republicans are laying the negative messaging groundwork today. Do you see Democrats understanding any of this, or doing anything to lay down a foundation to counter it and prime voters for their own campaign?

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Michael Roston

Obama Refers To "Social Security Crisis"

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, 2008, Social Security, Breaking Political News, Democrats, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

In an interview yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) explicitly used the word "crisis" in reference to Social Security, seemingly contradicting a progr...

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Are Democrats Blowing A Chance In A Generation on Trade?

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Class Warfare, Peru, Freshman Democrats, Public Citizen, Democrats, Labor, Free Trade, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

The Democrats who voted for the trade deal with Peru are, in my humble opinion, buying a phony framework for trade.

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The Fall and Rise of American Liberalism

Eric Alterman | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Campaigning, George W. Bush, Democrats, Politics News
Eric Alterman

Do Democrats fear the President's 25 percent approval ratings? He stands revealed to hawk and dove alike, grossly incompetent at home and abroad. He f...

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The Suicide Strategy (Not)

Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Passionate Politics, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Campaigning, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marty Kaplan

What a difference a poll makes. Say ta-ta to triangulation, Hillary. Scrap that pox-on-boomer-era culture wars, Barack.

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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

Dave "Mudcat" Saunders | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Gop, Steve Beshear, John Edwards, Kentucky, Republicans, Democrats, Red States, Politics News
Dave

The absolute truth is with the eminent coming of the Republican onslaught in '08, John Edwards is the only electable Democrat.

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Any Little (South Carolina) Boy Can Be President? Not a Chance.

Linda Hansen | Posted 11.07.2007 | Home

Read More: Democrats, Colbert Candidacy, South Carolina, 2008 Election, Home News
Linda Hansen

The repercussions for kicking Colbert off the ballot-- for the South Carolina Democratic Party in general and the Obama campaign in particular -- are right tawdry.

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Hillary, the Debate, and the Media Folly

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Debate, Hillary Clinton, Roger Simon, Democrats, Tim Russert, Media, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It was clearly a watershed moment for the media. But for voters? Not so much.

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Max Follmer

GOP Backers Of California Electoral Vote Initiative Raise Half-Million Dollars In Two Weeks

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Republican Ploy California Electoral Votes, California, Darrell Issa, California Gop, Chris Dodd, Democratic Party, Democrats, 2008 Election, Electoral Map, Elections, Califronia Republican Party, Rudy Giuliani, Electoral Votes, California Politics, California Electoral Votes, Hillary Clinton, Electoral College, Republicans, Republican Party, Politics News

GOP proponents of a California ballot initiative to end the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning electoral votes have raised roughly $539,00...

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America's Feeling Blue: Dems Shine On Election Day '07

Washington Post | Posted 11.07.2007 | Politics

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Kentucky: The biggest news of the night was in the Bluegrass State where former Lt. Gov. Steve Beshear (D) crushed Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) 59 percent ...

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We Don't Want More Liberal Representatives, We Want Stronger Ones

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Weakness, Press, Conservatives, Iraq War Funding, Democrats, Liberals, Michael Mukasey, Centrists, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

I like how Schumer and Feinstein coordinated their Friday press releases on Mukasey to take pressure off each other. And they released it on a Friday night. Did you think we wouldn't notice?

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Democrats: Enjoy the Moment

Paul Jenkins | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Al Sharpton, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Electability, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, George Mcgovern, Al Gore 2000, Elections, Democrats Elections, John Kerry, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ralph Nader, Republicans, John Kerry 2004, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Electability is a concept that makes many progressive voters uncomfortable, as it should. It usually means excruciating political compromise and it's so often for nothing.

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Democrats Abstain From Principles: Fund Bush Anti-Sex Education Programs at Record Level

James Wagoner | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics

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James Wagoner

The Democrats' windfall was larger than what Bush had been able to obtain from the prior Republican-controlled Congress.

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It's Hard to be a Democrat

Nora Ephron | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Dennis Kucinich, Nora Ephron, Michael Mukasey, John Edwards, Waterboarding, Mukasey Torture, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Politics News
Nora Ephron

It's hard to remember that the real enemies are the Republicans when the Democrats tend to break your heart and the Republicans are just the boys you'd never go out with anyway.

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Obama On Space Aliens: Kucinich Would Give Them Licenses, Giuliani Would Shoot Them Down

Newsweek | Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe | Posted 11.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Elections, Space Aliens, Ufos, Rudy Giuliani, Dennis Kucinich, Martians, Obama on Aliens, 2008 Election, Obama UFO, Democrats, Extraterrestrials, Barack Obama, Politics News

There is a sense of urgency at Sen. Barack Obama's headquarters in a steel-and-glass office tower in downtown Chicago. The Iowa caucuses, a must win, ...

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