House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that more than 10 members of Congress have received threats in the wake of the health reform vote, and police are taking appropriate action, CBS News Capitol Hill Producer Jill Jackson reports. The chief of the Capitol Police, the Sergeant at Arms and a representative from the FBI [...]

According to Talking Points Memo, the Tea Party showed its “true colors” Saturday when protesters launched racial epithets and abusive language at Democrats, including words like ‘ni**er’ and ‘fa**ot’. Emanuel also managed to apologize for his own abusive language of fellow Democrats. He had been frequently criticized for harsh words, especially when he stirred up [...]

When Bush supported the partial privatization of Social Security, the proposal was so unpopular with the public that the Republican majority in Congress never allowed it to come to a vote. Bush touched the third rail of American politics — and was promptly electrocuted. Last but not least, one of the arguments that Republicans opportunistically [...]

Options for Obama abound: Mixing jobs, populism and American nationalism, for example, creates a perfect political trifecta for the Democrats. One of the State of the Union dial focus groups indicated that the strongest pro-Obama response occurred when the President suggested ending tax breaks for corporations that outsource American jobs. Up to now, Obama has [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBqtyvn7OVw[/youtube] Anthony Weiner [D-NY] sounds off about the Republicans’ lack of bipartisanship on health care reform.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ[/youtube] The Washington Post‘s Steven Pearlstein tells me on MSNBC that the American people shouldn’t expect Washington to be able to do anything about jobs because it’s the result of “imbalances” that have to be “worked out” and it’s going to take time and people just need to be patient and take their medicine. (Mrs. Alan [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUokrVXwPg[/youtube] Filmmaker Michael Moore joins Democracy Now! for a wide-ranging interview about Haiti, the Supreme Court decision on corporate campaign financing, President Obama’s first year in office, the Democrats, and much more. “The Democrats don’t have the guts. They don’t have the courage of their own convictions. They’re disgusting. I’m embarrassed,” Moore says. “I want [...]

They’re tuning out because we wasted 2009 “negotiating” with bad faith actors like Snowe and Mike Enzi. The tools were available to quickly pass a health care bill, yet Democrats were too incompetent to do so. And on issue after issue, they’ve proven completely ineffective. THAT’s why the base is sitting things out. They don’t [...]

Obama’s political problems stem from a broader Democratic inability to counter the infernal GOP noise machine — a failure now two decades old. Republican rejectionism ought to have been clear to the White House from the moment they voted unanimously against the economic stimulus — cynically betting that recovery would come too late for the [...]

There are many reasons for the progressive division on the health care bill.  There are differences over the narrow question of health care policy, with some believing the bill does more harm than good just on that ground alone.  Some of it has to do with broader questions of political power:  if progressives always announce that [...]

In the wake of the passage of the House health-reform bill and its attached anti-choice Stupak-Pitts Amendment, the conversation happening among progressive women was viscerally angry and palpably fearful. The broader liberal conversation was very different — one in which the amendment was regrettable but unavoidable in the interest of the greater good. It is [...]