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What a difference 5 years (and a Democratic president) makes when it comes to Supreme Court nominees. Orrin Hatch today: "Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced Friday that he will vote against the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. The Utah Republican voted to confirm Kagan as solicitor general, but suggested in a statement that she would put her personal views ahead of the law if confirmed to the court. "The law must control the...

In an interview with Nevada journalist Jon Ralston, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Sharron Angle, was asked to defend a 1995 statement in which she said, "the tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine." Angle's response was that "Thomas Jefferson has been misquoted...out of context." Watch:<br />OK, here's Thomas Jefferson in context, from his often-quoted letter to the Danbury Baptists:"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies...

Remember that jobs bill the Republicans killed last week?  The one that Desperado wrote about that killed unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans unable to find work? Did you know that the National Flood Insurance Program funding was killed as well?  For the fourth time this year?  This time, no emergency extention came, as the Republicans that kept blocking the filibuster in the past finally caved.  In case you're wondering, those Senators were Scott...

Scott Brown is a quick learner. In his short time in the Senate he's become a master at the game of 'How To String Along The Gullible Democrat' aka Lucy and the Football.Here's how it goes: Obstructionist Republican says, "I would vote for this particular piece of legislation except for X." Gullible Democrat believes Obstructionist Republican (although for the life of me I can't figure out why) and changes or takes out X. Obstructionist Republican then says, "That's...

The Oil Palace in Tyler, Texas, that is. Where the suckers her adoring followers paid $40 and up to hear these pearls of wisdom: "I want this most exceptional country in the nation to be free, to be prosperous, to not be beholden to the foreign countries that soon we are going to be bowing down to if we become more reliant on them to drill for us.""Government can and must play an appropriate oversight...

CIA Director Leon Panetta appeared on ABC's This Week yesterday, where he laid out some of the "problems" we face in Afghanistan along with our "fundamental purpose" there and what "winning" might look like. From Think Progress:<br />Too bad most, if not all, of what Panetta describes is not based in reality. "There are some serious problems here. We're dealing with a tribal society. We're dealing with a country that has problems with governance, problems...

Forgive my language this morning, folks. I don't like to get my blood pressure up this early on a Saturday morning, but this latest action by 40 Republicans plus Ben Nelson in the Senate in killing the extension of unemployment benefits really pisses me off. And every time one of these lying, elitist assholes opens their mouths it pisses me off that much more.  Like Olympia Snowe, who sent a letter to Harry Reid "urging"...

CBS News reports that 82.5% of Louisiana's National Guard is sitting idle while Feds and BP try to get the oil spill under control. The party of 'state's right's' rhetoric seems to have this backwards.  When it comes to legislation, they want the federal government completely out of it.  When it comes to disaster, they want the feds to pay the bill while their own resources sit idle.  While they complain - constantly - about 10th...

Commenting on a Huffington Post piece about how Republicans and Ben Nelson (excuse my redundancy) appeared poised to kill the tax-extenders bill in the Senate, which they succeeded in doing late yesterday, Steve Benen at Washington Monthly wrote: "In the real world, this means millions of jobless Americans will lose their already-modest benefits, and hundreds of thousands of workers will be laid off over the next year, including teachers, police officers, and firefighters. All of this...

I'm feeling a bit under the weather and wanted to turn the discussion back over to you guys today. I read a poll last week that tied Bill White up with Rick Perry.  That's great news given he faces low name recognition as it is state-wide. Question:  You are Bill White's campaign manager.  What does he need to do to win in this heavily red state?...