President Obama seems remarkably proud of himself for the many “concessions” he won from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as part of their deal to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two years. The administration has really tried to spin the “success” of this deal by claiming Obama got $238 billion in spending while the [...]

Subbing for Rachel Maddow Tuesday night, Chris Hayes on the passage of Audit the Fed: CHRIS HAYES:  Something truly remarkable happened in Washington today.  The United States Senate passed something, by the way of a 96 to 0 vote — 96 in favor, 0 against.  Which means Democrats and Republicans voted together, for the same [...]

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) came out in support of Sen. Tom Udall’s (D-NM) effort to change the Senate’s rules to fix the dysfunctional institution and restore majority rule: Rachel Maddow: Is it your sense that your caucus, the Democrats in the Senate are will to look at a [...]

This morning on Face the Nation, Joe Lieberman said “I wish people would come out and debate me on the public option instead of questioning my motives.”

Well, it’s not an election year, so the good people of Connecticut probably haven’t him enough to debate him.

There are many things that can make a race attractive to a primary challenger — or, conversely, make Lincoln think twice about joining a Republican filibuster. Like hiring organizers in Arkansas to start knocking on doors and set up phone banks into Arkansas, and compiling the names of voters in the state who would support a primary challenge against her.

We need $30,000 to put this into action. It may well be the most effective $30,000 we spend on health care this year. Or EFCA, for that matter.

Can you help dare Blanche, too?

Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) made some very encouraging activist noises while being interviewed by Rachel Maddow this evening. She said that she too is impatient, but said she’ll go to the big LGBT DNC gala next week in order to convey the urgency of passing her Domestic Partners bill for Federal employees, as well as repealing DOMA.

Getting bills to the President’s desk for him to sign is the most important step for the Congress.

Rachel Maddow and Katha Pollitt take Rev. Rick Warren to the woodshed.

 Ouch.