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Updated for WP link:Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted from their book "It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism," which will be available Tuesday....

Has the grace period on not speaking ill of the dead expired yet? I hope so. Andrew Breitbart was a lying, slandering, race-baiting, hatemongering, dirtbag. Not to leave out the living, his legacy lives on and his work unfortunately continues thanks to the two gutter snipes who took over upon Breitbart's death at that open sewer they call a web site.Read the headlines and the articles at Breitbart.com and their fellow smear merchants around the...

Tonight, Keith gave a special comment about the ongoing controversy over the Susan B. Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood for politically expedient reasons.  Saying what we are saying, much more eloquently than us, Keith asserts that Karen Handel resigning is not enough.  Have a look:...

Karen Handel, new Susan B. Komen senior vice president of government relations, recruited by former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, and architect of the organization's strategy to defund Planned Parenthood, resigned in disgrace today.  The firestorm of outrage generated by her push to stop funding breast cancer screening for low income women blew up in Handel's face last week, and cost her her job today.  As we've been reporting on over the last week, the...

UPDATED: Komen just announced that they are reversing their decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.  Good decision, but now CEO Nancy Brinker should fire Nancy Handel, then resign herself for this political decision.You've probably heard by now that breast cancer organization, Susan G. Komen Foundation recently terminated its long time partnership with Planned Parenthood purportedly because PP was "under investigation".  The "under investigation" excuse is from a new rule Komen put in place...

A very insightful piece by former GWB staffer David Frum about how the Tea Party is driving the GOP bus right over the 2012 cliff.  ...

Republican Texas State Representative Wayne Christian says that cuts to family planning agencies by the Texas legislature are about birth control as well as about abortion.(Above--Wayne Christian on the left with Texas Governor Rick Perry. These men are concerned that Texas women have access to birth control.)Here is what Representative Christian said---"The goal is to get government money out of the abortion process and if contraceptive services have to suffer a bit of collateral damage...

Republicans want you to believe that Social Security is "broke" and "a fraud."  Nothing could be farther from the truth....

http://this-small-planet.com/2011/can-government-really-create-jobs-of-course-it-can/#more-427...

Here is what Texas Governor and Presidential candidate Rick Perry said a few weeks back about New York State deciding to permit gay marriage---"That's New York, and that's their business, and that's fine with me," However, after being pressed on the issue by his far-right evangelical allies, here is what Governor Perry said on the same topic a few days later---"I probably needed to add a few words after that 'it's fine with me,' and that it's fine with me...