In his Special Comment on MSNBC’s “Countdown” last night, Keith Olbermann called out prominent members of Congress who are working to kill health-care reform, accusing them of prostituting themselves to the health industry lobbies.
“We know what you are, sir, we’re arguing about the price.” – Olbermann addressing Sen. Thune (R-N.D.), who has been paid [...]

Ken Rudin is reporting that Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee canceled today’s vote on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Today’s scheduled vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has been postponed until next Tuesday.
Republican senators on the committee, as is their prerogative, [...]

U.S. Capitol Building under construction in 1858
The House of Representatives voted 399 to 1 yesterday for a resolution expressing gratitude to the slaves who built the United States Capitol Building, which said, in part:
Whereas enslaved African-Americans provided labor essential to the construction of the United States Capitol;
…Whereas enslaved African-Americans performed the backbreaking work of quarrying [...]

Late last week, Alaska politics were roiled by another controversy involving Gov. Sarah Palin when Gary Stevens, the Republican president of the Alaska Senate, described a press release issued by Palin’s office explaining her reasons for skipping a vitally important economic meeting as “absolutely false.”
Instead of participating in the session with legislative leaders to discuss [...]

A few weeks ago, the Alexa Foundation, a group that offers support to rape victims, made the bizarre decision to invite right-wing propagandist Bill O’Reilly to speak at a fundraiser. O’Reilly, who is married, was famously sued by a Fox producer for making unwelcome sexual advances, has also made a statement on the air in [...]

As Michael Scott, the boss at a paper company’s branch office in Scranton on NBC’s “The Office,” Steve Carrell, a “Daily Show” alum, plays an incompetent egomaniac with perfect pitch. In scripted dialogue, Michael Scott says things like this:
Michael Scott: The most sacred thing I do is care… Today I am in charge of picking [...]

Leaked documents detailing the formation of an anti-gay front group by the Mormon Church in Hawaii over a decade ago have prompted a call for an official investigation into the church’s relationship with the National Organization for Marriage, a group formed in 2007 to promote Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment, in California last year.
“The [...]

A lot of questions are being raised about this “public service announcement” (PSA) from Florida’s Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum.
For one thing, why did he skirt Florida’s procurement laws to hire his own 2006 campaign media consultant to produce the PSA and buy the media? The tab, so far, is $1.4 million.
McCollum is the [...]

The Bushes, from George H.W. to Jeb, have always had a soft spot for Northeast Florida, finding it a profitable place for them to fund raise. And what the area might now lack in quantity of adherents, it makes up in quality. Fourteen of Bush 43’s highest potential donors in these parts met with him [...]

Judge Judy Sheindlin on Larry King Live:
“We’ve got a lot of trouble in this country. We’ve got a lot of trouble in the world. Why the state should be interested in proscribing the word marriage from two people who love each other, who are responsible, tax-paying, productive people, who have created a family … why [...]