House Dems devise branding for GOP’s health care reform repeal effort: “The Patient’s Rights Repeal Act.”
Seriously, are there no Democrats anywhere on Madison Avenue who can help with this stuff?
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has officially announced her much-expected retirement.
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Pretty remarkable account from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) who, along with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), were visiting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital yesterday when she opened her eyes for the first time since the assassination attempt.
Our Brian Beutler says Boehner may be getting a bum rap on not attending the event in Tucson.
Tom DeLay says he was convicted because he drew too liberal a jury.
After eight and a half years in federal prison, legendary former Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards has been released and arrived at a halfway house in Baton Rouge early this morning.
Edwards, a Democrat who served an unprecedented four terms as governor in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, is now 83 years old. He had always managed to stay one step ahead of the law until his fourth term in the mid-1990s, when the legalization of gambling in Louisiana provided so many opportunities for graft and corruption that Edwards and his cronies fell victim to their own excesses. Read More