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 …

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 …

Interview of Vick, the Serbian Nationalist and right wing extremist in the American Outback, literally on the Loneliest Highway in America.

For Erinn Ackley, it was her father’s insurance company denying claim after claim for a bone marrow transplant to treat the leukemia that eventually killed him. For Mark Gendernalik, it was his insurer’s agent refusing referrals for diagnostic tests for his three-month-old daughter, who was suffering seizures. And for pediatrician Mel Stern, it’s been a decades-long scuffle with insurers over claims payments — a battle that’s forced him to stock his office with folks dedicated solely to the task of paperwork-shuffling and claims-haggling.
As …

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land today tossed out a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama.
Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever files a similar “frivolous” lawsuit in his court.
“(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual allegations to support her unsubstantiated, conclusory allegations …