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I read the news today:Arlen Specter switched parties because he couldn't win the Republican primary, now he loses the Democratic primary to Joe Sestak. This just in Arlen, it's not about party this year, the key word is "incumbent." You're 80 years old, you've been in the Senate for 30 years. Your time is up. Mitch McConnell's hand-picked candidate to succeed Jim Bunning got smoked by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul in the Republican senatorial...

As I look around the political landscape today, illustrated perfectly by the complete chaos that the health care reform debate has evolved into, I have to ask myself, what the hell happened? How did the Obama presidency, which had so much promise and potential for becoming the "change" that so many of us voted for and hoped for, turn into such a mess? How did this happen to a president who was elected in what...

Senator Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Senate, speaking about the health care reform bill. From Think Progress: "This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House and the White House. I dream some day of having the Republicans have 60 votes. I'll tell you one thing, I think we would finally have...

Can we please have an Afghanistan reality check? President Hamid Karzai stole the first election, with one out of every three votes being fraudulent. Abdullah Abdullah, who finished second and was supposed to be Karzai's opponent in the run-off, withdrew because the same election commission, all Karzai appointees, was poised to steal the run-off as well. Following Abdullah's pullout, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters: "President Karzai has been declared the winner of...

Have you ever heard of Brooksley Born? Neither had I until I watched the latest edition of Frontline on PBS called The Warning, which lays out the history of the collapse of the financial markets. Brooksley Born was the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission in the late '90's who tried to warn the financial wizards of the day, specifically Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers about the impending disaster in the derivatives...

  The Obama administration is having a banner week. First up, LA Times: Former President Clinton, two journalists welcomed back from North Korea. Here's a great clip of Hillary Clinton being asked about John Bolton's criticism of the humanitarian mission, in which she addresses the remarks by pointing out that if President Obama walked on water "he'd say he couldn't swim." Priceless.     From North Korea we move on to the historic confirmation...

Today, President Clinton brought American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee home after securing their release from 140 days of captivity in North Korea. The former President worked with former VP Al Gore, President Obama, and dozens of diplomats, security specialists, and staffers to negotiate their release.  Here is the raw feed from CNN of their arrival in Burbank, California. Just watching tells you why Clinton and all the others rescued them.  Posted without further...