Looks like the Obama White House is expecting Senator Franken to be seated once the Minnesota Supreme Court renders its final judgment in the recount case. Tim Pawlenty, are you listening?

Domestic violence cases are nasty and nearly impossible to untangle. And especially tough for kids who get caught in the middle. The one constant: women who have been so beaten down that they don’t feel like they have anyone to turn to are the ones who most need a hand up. 

Joe Biden helped create a safe space with VAWA…

While visiting Ellen DeGeneres on her talk show Monday, VP candidate Joe Biden called  California’s same sex marriage ban Proposition 8 "regressive" and "unfair" and added that he and running mate Barack Obama opposed a similar initiative nationally.Biden said that if he lived in California he would be voting No on 8. The candidate also [...]

Trekkies–or to use the more PC term they prefer "Trekkers"– have been hotly debating who’s who on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. While McCain as Kirk seems a bit grandiose, Palin as a tribble, the irritatingly cute, furry creature which is actually a ecological menace is spot on.

John Nance Garner famously said that the office of the Vice President of the United States wasn’t worth a bucket of warm spit.

When Sarah Palin annonced that she’d expand the powers of the vice presidency, I became nostalgic for Nance’s traditional values:

We at Firedoglake have been busy planning a delightful collection of dishes, appropriate to enjoy during the Vice Presidential debates, based on the candidates and their foibles. You can also nibble on them during a viewing of Larry’s Flynt’s latest oeuvre: Amuse bouche de Biden– filet of sole with balsamic vinagrette (place whole piece in [...]

This week during the UN summit Bono will meet with John McCain to discuss global poverty issues. Members of McCain’s foreign policy staff and Gov. Palin will be included at the request of McCain’s campaign. She’ll probably be sporting the ONE wrist band she received at a campaign stop last Thursday. Biden has had several [...]

Joe Biden and Beau Biden Originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein DENVER, CO. Joe Biden embraces his son, Beau, on stage at the DNC last night. Beau introduced his father. The younger Biden is scheduled to deploy to Iraq with the National Guard in the fall. Fatherhood and family was the major theme of Beau’s introduction [...]

The Obama camp sent out the following text message to its supporters at approximately 3:12 am on Saturday, August 23

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware brushed off a small throng of veepstakes-crazed reporters at his Wilmington home today, saying “I’m not the guy”: