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Dealing with the effects of globalization will be a catch-all for the Dems’ legislative agenda, according to Pelosi: That’s what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told bloggers this morning Congressional Democrats are calling their set of economic proposals on everything from the minimum wage to increasing access to higher education, from affordable housing to developing “green collar” [...]

John Conyers is increasingly interested in talking impeachment: On Friday John Conyers appeared at an event in San Diego. While speaking there he said that he would support the introduction of articles of impeachment if three additional members of Congress ask him to do so. (He seemed to say he meant in addition to the [...]

This is what I get for sleeping in on Sunday and missing Meet the Press. Apparently Russ Feingold appeared to announce a new resolution to censure the president, hot on the heels of this week’s podcast where we discuss the case for impeachment. The problem with the censure resolution is that it’s too early. First [...]

It’s amazing how Meet the Press can suddenly turn into good television when you have a Senator like Jim Webb who’s actually willing to call out the Republican party for their B.S. about “supporting the troops.” Typically the politicians’ segment of the show is far less interesting than the journalists’. But today was the exception: [...]

According to this NYT piece post-”surge” withdrawl plan is coming into focus in the White House, replete with off-putting metaphors: Administration officials say that if Mr. Bush talked now about pulling back forces at the end of this year or next spring, he would only provide new ammunition for those Democrats and a growing number [...]

Gonzales to Congress: “The buck stops… um… down there somewhere. I have no idea what I’m doing so I can’t tell you more than that.” (PS: what’s with the short posts today? are we turning into Instapundit? Heaven forbid!)

I think we all know where this one is headed. A “senior administration official” leaks to the press that Rove was knee-deep in the U.S. Attorney firings scandal. How long before the right-wing talking point on this becomes, “the ability to fire Attorneys was created by the Patriot Act. So clearly, the leaker needs to [...]

Rep. David Obey seems to be warming up to the fund-it-for-a-few-months-and-see strategy that I outlined a few weeks back. It makes sense: the President has said he wants until September to see if his new strategy is working, so give him until September and then hold him to it. Make it clear that he’s got [...]

It looks like Bush, as usual, is going to get exactly what he wants with respect to Iraq war funding. It’s funny how these things happen. For a guy with a 30% approval rating, he sure seems to get his way an awful lot. On the plus side, the Democrats are going to force some [...]

So it appears that there’s finally a bill on war funding that the House and Senate agree on. In case you haven’t been following, the basic gist of the story is this: Congressional Democrats want to end the war (which is what they were elected to do last November), so they put together a funding [...]