Boehner distances himself from McConnell’s confrontational remarks toward Obama.
Why did the Pot Legalization proposition go down to defeat in California?
ed.note: A lot of people on both sides of the Prop 19 issue have written in with various points about Prop 19 but usually assuming that I personally supported it. I hadn’t really focused on it much, honestly. But I think I probably would have voted against it. For two reason: First, unless I’m missing something, it amounts to nullification. The federal government seems like the competent authority to regulate this question, even if I think our drug policy is a disaster. Federal laws trump state laws, even when you don’t like them. Read More
The Daily Show sets out to figure out what exactly “it” is that Obama doesn’t get. Watch.
Conservative Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) has released a statement saying that he “can’t in good conscience support Nancy Pelosi as Leader” and that it’s time for new, more conservative leadership in the House Democratic Caucus.
We’re finally rid of those pesky Blue Dogs that weighed us down in the majority. Now we can go back to being a smug minority.
A dyed-in-the-wool birther has been elected House majority leader in the Missouri General Assembly. This guy is actually a plaintiff in one of Orly Taitz’s birther lawsuits.
Nancy Pelosi just announced, via Twitter, that she will run for minority leader.
The Republican carnival barkers who gin up “vote fraud” claims went remarkably quiet as soon as the election results were in.
It prompts TPM Reader CH, with tongue firmly in cheek, to hatch her own conspiracy theory: Read More
Speaker Pelosi’s letter to House Dems on her decision to run for Minority Leader.