Archive for the ‘Democratic Party’ Category
See This Again
Smooth Curve
The Vice Presidential Debate
Sheldon Whitehouse Asks a Question
Culture War Armageddon
Kevin Drum on what John McCain is doing to American politics:
John McCain has obviously decided that he can't win a straight-up fight, so he's decided instead to wage a battle of character assassination, relentless lies, and culture war armageddon. So what happens on November 5th?
If McCain wins, he'll face a Democratic congress that's beyond furious. [...]
Barack Obama Accepts Democratic Nomination
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination for President
Obama Victory Speech
Amigos de Obama
Amigos de Obama
Cumbia de Obama
Senate Passes “Protect America Act” with Corporate Spy Amnesty
Eric Lichtblau in The New York Times:
After more than a year of heated political wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers after giving legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program.
The Senate rejected a series of amendments that [...]
Nineteen Shitheads
Democrat Max Baucus (Montana)
Democrat Evan Bayh (Indiana)
Democrat Tom Carper (Delaware)
Democrat Bob Casey (Pennsylvania)
Democrat Kent Conrad (North Dakota)
Democrat Dianne Feinstein (California)
Democrat Daniel Inouye (Hawaii)
Democrat Tim Johnson (South Dakota)
Democrat Herb Kohl (Wisconsin)
Democrat Mary Landrieu (Louisiana)
Democrat Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas)
Democrat Claire McCaskill (Missouri)
Democrat Barbara Mikulski (Maryland)
Democrat Ben Nelson (Nebraska)
Democrat Bill Nelson (Florida)
Democrat Mark Pryor (Arkansas)
Democrat Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia)
Democrat [...]
Senate Approves Amnesty for Telecom Spies
Paul Kiel at TPMMuckraker:
Let there be no doubt: a majority of senators, and a large number of Democrats, think the telecoms should not suffer the hazard of accountability for cooperating with the administration's warrantless wiretapping program. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) took to the floor last night to give a speech asking, "This is our defining [...]