Elizabeth Edwards Funeral live-blog

Elizabeth Edwards will be laid to rest today at 1 p.m. eastern in Raleigh, North Carolina. The funeral is open to the public and will be televised by CNN. Westboro Bigotist church will be protesting. You can express your thoughts and feelings here. CNN is live-streaming here

Bernie Sanders says what the Big Dawg couldn’t

I missed most of the FiliBernie yesterday where Bernie Sanders took to a nearly empty Senate floor and spoke for 8 hours and 36 minutes.  Fortunately, I caught it on C-Span2 the second time around. Bernie laid it all out.  The irresponsible tax breaks for millionaires, the distress of the unemployed, the immorality of the [...]

Saturday morning eeeeeeeeew!

Columbia professor is charged with incest, accused of bedding young relative for 3 years A popular Columbia professor was charged Thursday with incest – accused of a sick sex relationship with a female relative, prosecutors said. Political science Prof. David Epstein, 46, bedded the young woman over a three-year period ending last year, according to [...]

Compare and contrast

Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser After Bill Clinton Takes Control Former President Bill Clinton gave a statement after his meeting with President Obama about his tax compromise with the Republicans. 

However, after his statement, Clinton began to call on and take questions from the press with Obama at his side. Obama promptly after a few [...]

Pobrecitos!

Gates: Senate ‘don’t ask’ vote leaves military ‘at mercy of courts’ Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the military would be placed “at the mercy of the courts” by the Senate’s failure to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law and warned that chaos could result if pending legal challenges are successful. As [...]

Afternoon open thread: The Filibernie

The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is railing against President Obama’s tax-cut package in a lengthy floor speech. Sanders, one of the Senate’s leading liberals, is protesting Obama’s deal with Republicans, which would extend tax cuts on all income that were initially signed by President George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003. Sanders began his [...]

“F*ck the President” Friday

Roll Call: Profanity, Anger Spill Over in House Democratic Caucus Meeting The frustration with President Barack Obama over his tax cut compromise was palpable and even profane at Thursday’s House Democratic Caucus meeting. One unidentified lawmaker went so far as to mutter “f— the president” while Rep. Shelley Berkley was defending the package the president [...]

Thursday Blog-o-rama

Here’s what some of our friends in Left Blogistan are talking about Violet Socks has two new posts up: Naomi Wolf to serve as new spokesmodel for Ladies Against Feminism The latest from Naomi The Idiot: a pro-rape anti-woman post from hell that makes her prior essays in favor of hijab and Jesus look like [...]

Thursday: Saddle point

Do you get the idea that we have reached some kind of turning point?  Is there nowhere to go but up or are we sliding sideways into oblivion?  Will the public finally see what the Republicans really are once they take over the House during the mother of all recessions or has the preincubation of [...]

Touching the 3rd Rail

It was former U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill who first called Social Security the “third rail of American politics,” and O’Neill did as much as anyone to make Social Security a deadly political issue. But what happens if both legacy parties touch that rail together? Has it ever happened? At Hullabaloo, Digby shared this [...]