For those who claim the Democrats don’t have a plan on Iraq, Senators Obama and Feingold proved today that we’ve got at least two. Obama today offered a comprehensive bill that would mandate a phased redeployment of our combat troops in Iraq, to begin no later than May 1, 2007 and to end no later [...]

In a bold move, President Bush has given the White House increased control in regulating public health, the environment, civil rights, privacy and safety, the New York Times reported on Monday (Columbia Law School Professor Peter L. Strauss is quoted in the article). The White House would have a political appointee in each agency making [...]

The Dems’ own Brittany Brewer got an excellent Op/Ed published in yesterday’s Spec on the numerous failings of Bush’s poorly received (but cheerfully liveblogged) State of the Union. For your convenience and edification, you can find it reprinted below: The State of the Union address is typically an opportunity for the President to dramatically present [...]

The ’08 smear campaign has begun – but not by the candidates themselves. The conservative website Insight has posted a report alleging that Senator Clinton’s team is preparing to attack Senator Obama’s Muslim background, claiming that he spent time in a Muslim seminary in Indonesia as a child. Just one problem…the New York Times reported [...]

One of the more amusing and satisfying parts of the protest on Saturday (by the way, I do not believe the police crowd estimates. I bet there were a little over 100,000 there, but what do I know: I just was in it, that’s all…) was the counter-demonstration on one side of the Capitol. About [...]