Break out the smelling salts: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved climate change legislation Thursday with no Republicans voting for the bill or even participating in the process. With Republican boycotting the proceedin...

Bill Frist never had 60 votes. Bill Frist never cared. Republicans ran the Senate as if they owned the place, even when enjoying razor-thin majorities. Yet when Democrats took the chamber, the first thing Harry Reid did was complain that he couldn...

It looks like the kids at Politico decided to hold a contest to see who could write the most idiotic, non-story of the year. Ken Vogel won: Those who pay attention to political rhetoric say an unusual amount of profanity has emanated from this Wh...

We took Congress in large part because Republicans ignored corruption inside their ranks. The House ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday to expand the investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel’s (D-N.Y.) alleged financial irregularities. ...

Here's something straight out of left field: a video of Michael Steele from September 21, in which Steele says that while "he's not a big fan of ACORN" he believes ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis has done "a phenomenal job getting out i...

President Obama made a list and checked it twice, and in doing so found out who's naughty and nice. Then he went to enemy camp town. In an unprecedented display of Christmas spirit, Obama promised to deliver 30,000 presents to the citizens of...

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are mem from somerville, Blank Frank, vcmvo2, mtperson, and jlms qkw with vcmvo2 as editor. The diaries up for rescue tonight are: In a moving diary about the homeless, Middlelines tells the story of a night he spent with...

During this fall's Netroots Nation auction, I made the confession that I'm a crafter. That admission brought all the creative Kossacks out of the closet and in the comments, person after person volunteered their talent. So many in fact, that the smart...

Everybody's getting in the negotiating game. Snowe, emerging from a meeting on the first floor of the Capitol, Saturday afternoon, told a few reporters hovering outside the room that she had been approached earlier that morning about attending. ...

In a video recorded on November 30, 2009 and released Friday by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, former half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says that America must seek rededicate itself to God and "seek his will" to solve "the great...