While being cautious in their headline by using the word “possible,” the NYT offers a sensible assessment of the current state of not just the race for the nomination but that of the party of a whole on the Democrat side of the aisle:
Certainly, no one is expecting a couple with such political skills, an [...]

What has been accomplished in Congress under the leadership of Mr. Reid and Mrs. Pelosi?
Find out all you need to know at Texas Rainmaker.
Progress, sheer backwards progress, (or perhaps an intentional lack thereof in a presidential election year…hmmm.).

By now everyone knows Florida and Michigan broke the Democratic Party’s rules when they held their primaries before the approved dates.
In each case Hillary Clinton won, but Barack Obama and the other candidates were not on the Michigan ballot and Clinton is the only one to break the pledge not to campaign in Florida.
Now the [...]

President Bush speaks on the Moveon.org ad and the Democrats.
Well said Mr. President.

Courtesy of Hot Air this is a must see.

Sorry for the brevity of the posts folks, my internet connection through Comcast has been less than reliable all week.

When Bill Clinton was undergoing impeachment proceedings a new group of grassroots democrats started up with the slogan and name of move on.
They wanted to move on from impeachment and get on to other business of the country as they saw it.
Impeachment was a mistake by the republicans at the time and I [...]

That great prognosticator of current events in the House of Representatives, John Murtha, is predicting the Democrats will pick up 40 to 50 seats in the House in next year’s election.
We might as well pack it in, folks. He knows what he’s talking about. After all, he’s the one who wanted to redeploy [...]

There has been one absolutely terrific site on all things Hsu. Flip at Suitably Flip has filled in the holes which have been left in this story by the media.
The referenced post above is one you will, I do not believe see elsewhere as it is a direct communication from the DA handling Mr. [...]

After having said, prior to the August Congressional recess, that the House would vote on a criminal contempt resolution against Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolton the Democratic leadership has come back and said “Not yet.”
Maybe while on recess they realized the hullaballoo about the U.S. Attorneys firings was much ado about nothing, which it is.
This [...]

Sue may have written about this already and I apologize for reposting the same information if she has.
The Wall Street Journal has a blog piece giving an eyewitness description of how Norman Hsu was found and the condition in which he was found.
That night, passengers on in the sleeper compartment across the aisle from his [...]

With every state party wanting to be one of the first and deciding states, the DNC has decided to disenfranchise the Florida delegates to the national convention in Denver next year if Florida doesn’t go back to its original primary date.
The Democratic Party has taken a swipe at the nation’s fourth biggest state, stripping Florida [...]

What’s new?
Failure to end the Iraq war has so divided Democrats it could jeopardize their chances of consolidating power in U.S. elections in November 2008, analysts said.
Nearly a year since the party parlayed discontent over the unpopular war into a majority in Congress, liberal Democrats, prodded by influential Internet bloggers, are pressing harder than ever [...]

This just isn’t right. Thank you my fellow dems. for screwing me again.
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval — certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of [...]

You can find the cowardly liberals Here
this is a story that J. referenced in her comment on Democrats see Clinton as strongest, most experienced leader.
I wonder if these are the same Democratic leaders that keep giving in to President Bush. They need to be replaced anyway.
WASHINGTON: Looking past the presidential nomination fight, [...]

I guess they didn’t please this crowd.
At the first-ever televised presidential forum devoted to gay rights issues, the Democratic front-runners, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), were sharply questioned on why they do not support same-sex marriage, while the two joined the other candidates in backing civil unions and the end [...]

This is an editorial By Martin O’Malley and Harold Ford Jr.
makes sense to me.
With President Bush and the Republican Party on the rocks, many Democrats think the 2008 election will be, to borrow a favorite GOP phrase, a cakewalk. Some liberals are so confident about Democratic prospects that they contend the centrism that vaulted Democrats [...]

Tell me this isn’t crazy. Sounds like they’re doing the American peoples work. Yeah Right!
Well, I guess you could say they learned from the best.
House Democratic leaders are intent on sidetracking bipartisan attempts to change course in Iraq at least until fall, officials said Tuesday, rather than allow nervous Republicans to vote [...]

This is an editorial by Suzanne Fields of the Washington Times.
Although the Senate’s refusal on Wednesday to permit the Democratic leadership to attach a surrender timeline to the defense authorization is welcome news, congressional Democrats remain convinced that opposing the war is a politically popular position, and they plan to milk defeatism for all it’s [...]

I wonder who is going to win this one?
In an April episode of ABC’s “The View,” Bill Maher and Rosie O’Donnell professed their support for Al Franken’s 2008 Minnesota Senate candidacy, with O’Donnell saying she was “maxing out” to the comedian-turned-candidate.
O’Donnell kept to her word, contributing $2,300 to his campaign, the maximum donation for [...]

There’s an interesting back and forth between Bill Moyers and Victor Gold, Goldwater’s deputy press secretary back in the ‘64 campaign, and later fixture in the GOP hierarchy.
Thinking about past conversations here about what it means to be a conservative or a liberal, I think this conversation further muddies the meaning of those two labels.

We all use the terms liberal and conservative, left and right, or blue or red, pretty indiscriminately. It’s understandable since these are convenient tags, and everyone else uses them. But like I’ve said elsewhere, I think this spectrum is too simplistic.
If you open the Word document below you’ll see some charts that measure [...]

Boy, was I wrong. I commented in another posting (Red-Staters Are Breeding Like…Drunken Ferrets?) that Catholics tended to vote for Democrats, but according to a Pew Survey, that wasn’t quite the case in the 02, 04, and 06 elections. As you can see below, white Catholics, especially those who attend mass regularly, are [...]

We’ve had a lot of back and forth on national politics, but it might interesting to look at what’s going on in state governments across the country. Pew has this Stateline.org report
Stateline.org has culled the accomplishments of the first 29 legislatures to wrap up their work for 2007. Besides spotting ways that citizens’ lives [...]

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel has always been considered to be a liberal Republican, who has even discussed impeachment of President Bush.
I could never understand how a liberal Republican would win a Senate seat when he’s from a very conservative state.
There are even rumors he might join Mayor Michael Bloomburg of NYC in a third party [...]

With the self-proclaimed base of the Republican party going bananas over illegal immigration and promising to not vote for someone who is not 100% as far right as they are on every issue, we now have the same thing happening to the self-proclaimed base of the Democratic party.
The bitter battle between the Democratic Congress [...]

I’ve been thinking lately about the far right wing of the Republican party and of the far left wing of the Democratic party.
To be honest with you I wouldn’t want to belong to either wing.
Let’s start with the far left wing of the Democratic party, which is the one I am least familiar with from [...]

The Senate Democrats have been foiled again in their effort to decide whether or not to fund the troops.
The Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation that would cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008.
The vote was a loss for Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., and other Democrats who want to end [...]

From Right Wing News we get this quote on the Governor of Kansas and her attempt to blame the Bush administration for not helping during the recent tornado:
Here’s a quote from a New York Times article on the attempt of Kathleen Sebelius to blame George Bush for her slow and incompetent response to a [...]

The Democratic House of Representatives is hell-bent on confrontations with the president as to what authority belongs to whom.
Now they are set to approve a bill that would fund the troops only until July, a scant two months away.
President Bush would veto a bill drafted by House Democratic leaders that would fund the Iraq [...]

It seems Arizona Senator Jon Kyl and not Senator John McCain is the White House go-to man for immigration legislation.
Last year the Senate passed a pretty liberal immigration bill that allows a path to citizenship for just about anyone who wants it. If not for the Republican House last year this bill would have [...]