Undercover Blue

The health care debate – with its leaks, mixed signals and close-to-the-vest dealing – has reform supporters losing their cool while Obama, ...

What Digby said : This is one of the problems with health care reform, as I've mentioned before. If the economy is doing well and defici...

Maybe it is something congenital about the left. Faced with lies, propaganda and intimidation, liberals go to Google to arm themselves with ...

I was too busy to really comment on the Blue Dog letter story this morning, but I had noticed how minor many of their grievances with the...

Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate distills Sarah Palin into a single paragraph [Emphasis mine.]: It's too easy to characterize Sarah Palin ...

From Roll Call : Senate Democratic leaders have stepped up the pressure on their rank and file to unify on procedural votes after finally ga...

One divide here is between passion and caution on health care reform. At several events, cries of "single payer" come up when heal...

With the Senate Democratic caucus just two votes shy of a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) no longer has the cl...

The Firedoglake article below was well received around the web. Johnson argues for the grassroots thinking more long term and getting into ...

This year’s election was right out of Frank Capra. An army of Obama volunteers fanned out like Boy Rangers, knocking on doors, making calls ...

Barack Obama won North Carolina by 14 points on Tuesday, but not here in the NC-11. Hillary Clinton won in this conservative district by 16 ...

If Democrats want a stronger hand in guiding America's future, they need to strengthen their brand identity among busy and beleaguered A...

A friend in the clergy just forwarded a noxious e-mail along with comments expressing his frustration and anger. The e-mail labeled that we...

Former president Bill Clinton spoke in Asheville last night, promoting Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. Cross-posted from Scru...

One of those now-infamous Superdelegates emailed the other day asking for thoughts on who to vote for at the DNC convention, and received so...

“The New Narcissism,” Peter Marin’s October 1975 opus in Harpers described the banality of the trendy human potential movement therapies on...

After quoting Greenwald on Chris Dodd's success, Atrios puts the naysayers in their places : One of my pet peeves has long been a certa...

People power forces Harry Reid to put FISA on the back burner until next year : All throughout the day, Judiciary Democrats such as Dodd, Ed...

in the Senate today. And not on alcohol . About FISA. (emphasis mine) Let’s not forget why we are even talking about this issue. At some po...

At recent and not-so-recent Democrat events I've attended, invariably someone gets up to remind us what Democrats are all about. To chee...