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Given the California electorate, whoever replaces Barbara Boxer should be someone around the Elizabeth Warren/Sherrod Brown wing of the Democratic Party. Of course. many of her likely replacements would likely.
Jim Jeffords gave control of the Senate to the Democrats in 2001 when he left the Republican Party. If it didn't permanently eliminate the Republican control that would allow the.
I suppose tonight's all-nighter pulled by Senate Democrats on climate change is a good thing but it also shows the limits of political theater because really, who cares. Which is a good argument as well against spoken filibusters. Everyone just waits for them to be...
Today in the annals of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, we have the case of Robert Pastor. Pastor, who died the other day, was something of a wunderkind in the.
I understand that Michelle Nunn faces an uphill battle to win the Georgia Senate seat. But I'm absolutely not convinced that parroting right-wing lines about the national debt and the.
Frank Lautenberg has passed. Lautenberg's most significant legacy is his role in raising the drinking age to 21. In principle, I think the drinking age should be lowered. But given the American automobile landscape and the American tradition of teenage driving, it was almost certainly...
Max Baucus, the Democratic Party's most annoying senator, is retiring at the end of his term. While like any Democrat, I worry about holding the seat, if Brian Schweitzer runs,.
The worst Democratic senator is almost certainly Joe Manchin. And the most disappointing in regard to where their politics vis-a-vis the political leanings of their state is Dianne Feinstein. But.
Today's hearings on Chuck Hagel just make me stand by what I said last week about Rand Paul not being one of the 3 worst senators.
It's a tough competition. I figure you have three candidates. First is the long-standing champion, James Inhofe, arguably the dumbest person to sit in the Senate for a long, long.
Filibuster reform is dead. Why? Harry Reid and senior Democrats flat out don't want it. Reformers think Reid changed his mind again in December, after a series of amendments to.