We may have been overly critical of the Blue Dog$ in the past but now is the time to give them their just rewards. They $imply voted the way their $upporter$ wanted. Isn’t that the responsibility of all ¢ongre$$men and $enator$?
Let’s consider this fact…
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) recently published an investigation into the Blue Dog$ and the money behind their rising power:
So far this year, the Blue Dog Political Action Committee is on track to shatter all its fundraising records; in fact, …

A mailer being sent by health insurers to seniors seeks to exploit fears about Congressional changes to the health care system to sell supplemental insurance. And it contains false claims about “new” reductions in Medicare benefits imposed by Congress.
Yesterday, 66-year-old Donna Price of Battle Ground, Washington, received this official-looking mailer in a pull-apart envelope from direct mail firm Target Leads (aka TL Service Center).
At the bottom, the mailer notes “Tim Manry, licensed insurance agent” may get in touch if you return the card with …

The attorney behind the first-ever Birther infomercial started teabagging way before it was cool.
Back in the mid 1970s, Gary Kreep spearheaded a national tea bag-based movement to protest the Ford Administration’s tax policies.
“To protest unreasonably high taxes, people stapled tea bags to their tax returns,” explains Kreep, now director of the United States Justice Foundation, but then a law student and an officer in the California chapter of the Reaganite Young Americans for Freedom.

When the the 2009 teabagger movement began to emerge earlier this …

A “birthermercial” is running in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas.
Gary Kreep (Kreep, an apropos name) of the United States Justice Foundation says his group will decide soon on a second buy for the 28-minute program that asks late-night viewers to give $30 to have facsimiles sent to several government officials demanding Obama produce his birth certificate. As a thank you, contributors also get a special Birther bumper sticker.
The first buy covered Sept. 10 through Sept. 27.
For your viewing pleasure, here’s the …

A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move. -MSNBC

By Lance Simmens
I just cannot remember it always being this way. Since when did the idea of taxes become ipso facto a bad idea, no way, no how, under no circumstances. In my 33 years of public service I can remember a time when balancing the fiscal equation meant negotiating a taxing and spending regimen that appreciated the need for government spending on things other than national defense, public safety, and corrections.
And then again maybe I am just daydreaming, but was there …

By Michael Hinckley From A World of Progress

When conservative pundits and talk show hosts play upon people’s fear, they do it for one reason: power. But they either didn’t have an Uncle Ben (or perhaps didn’t listen to him) like Peter Parker did. With great power comes great responsibility. Instead, the ends justify the means, regardless of who gets hurt in the process nor how contradictory.
Anti-government sentiment motivated Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices — all of whom warned of encroaching “big government” — to …

Freedom is sacred to those on the left side of the political spectrum. It is our central domain. We are almost exclusively anti-authoritarian, freedom loving individuals. From instigating independence movements against tyrants, to fighting for the liberty of human rights, to confronting the oppression of slavery, to standing up for free speech, Liberals stand for Liberty.

The Massachusetts Senate voted on Tuesday to allow the governor to name an interim U.S. Senate replacement for the late Edward Kennedy and fill a key 60th seat for the Democrats during the healthcare battle.
The heavily Democratic state Senate passed the bill 24 to 16, following approval by the state House of Representatives last week. The bill will go back to both chambers on Wednesday for a final vote and then requires a signature from Governor Deval Patrick, a Democrat who backs the legislation.
Patrick …

Now that’s harsh…
Mark Sanford appeared so unhinged during his now-legendary June press conference in which he admitted to an affair with an Argentine woman that the federal government temporarily yanked his security clearance.
That’s according to documents obtained through a public records request by the Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina.
The paper reports:
In a certified letter to Sanford dated July 1, Katherine Janosek, chief of the Homeland Security Personnel Security Division, wrote that the “Office of Security has suspended your access to classified information.”

She …