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How can we characterize the split among liberals over whether to support a Liebermaned health care bill?  Henry Farrell has an interesting...

I watched the midnight Senate session last night...very interesting.  A couple of comments: 1.  In a recent post, I said something about, ...

This afternoon's health care news were the statements by Andy Stern of the SEIU (reported by Jonathan Cohn) and the AFL-CIO's Richa...

Josh Marshall was in a sarcastic mood for a while today...under the header " Things That Are Cool ," he says: It's a great si...

I guess people can tell that I'm not a big fan of Howard Dean...I think I called him the liberal comp for John McCain recently, and I...

Hey, I'm not jealous just because Nate Silver's set of 20 Questions (for liberals against the health care bill) was a lot more visi...

Steve Benin has the scoop on this week's right-wing brouhaha -- the allegation that Obama threatened Ben Nelson with the closure of the...