This should not come as a shocker to anyone. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that Americans have significantly lost trust in Democrats’ ability to deal with the big problems facing our country: When compared with the early months of Obama’s presidency, the GOP’s overall gains are striking. A year ago, Democrats held a [...]

At a press conference the other day, President Obama seemed clearly annoyed that bipartisanship is not working like he thought it should: “Bipartisanship can’t be that I agree to all the things that they believe in or want, and they agree to none of the things I believe in and want, and that’s the price [...]

After I appeared on MSNBC talking about Sarah Palin’s appearance at the Nashville tea party convention, several libertarian friends pinged me to say they were unhappy with the exchange. I said that Sarah Palin’s hawkish message on Iran was oddly out of place in a group whose roots belong to the Ron Paul anti-interventionist libertarians, [...]

Attempts to get bipartisan support for health care reform were always doomed—doomed from the very beginning. Part of that is because Republicans had no political reason to help Democrats achieve one of the planks of their party platform. The idea that delivering on quality health care reform would help cement Democrats as defenders of the [...]

Dennis Kucinich knocked Alan Grayson out of the #1 spot and now leads the field in Day 4 of the FDL Fire Dog Contest, to determine which members of Congress will get FDL support in 2010.

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The House Republican leadership has sent a letter to the Obama Administration making it clear for the 100th time that they have zero intention of reaching a bipartisan agreement on Obama’s current health care reform proposal. Repeatedly, now, they have said they don’t like the current bill, and will only accept completely starting over in [...]

One sure sign that the Senate health care bill is dead as a doornail is the inevitable appearance of the anonymously-sourced finger-pointing articles. And in a novel twist, we have one blaming Rahm for the failure to pass health care reform that appear to be written by Rahm:

I think Obama’s planned televised bipartisan meeting on health care reform is a waste of time. Republicans had months to actively get involved with shaping the legislation and chose not to. They decided that the smart political move was to oppose health care reform at every turn. The chances of getting Republican buy-in at this [...]

Congressional Republican’s clearly don’t want this health care reform bill to pass. They made the political calculation that allowing Obama to achieve victory on this bill will only help Democrats in 2010. So, with this televised, bipartisan meeting scheduled for February 25th, the question is how will the Republicans play the meeting to get the [...]

Vote now for the 2010 FDL Fire Dogs

Today Anthony Weiner moves past Raul Grijalva and challenges Eric Massa for the third spot as a 2010 FDL Fire Dog. With two days left to go, there are only 151 votes separating them.

And the third day totals for the FDL Fire Dogs are: