Recent Votes

• How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin?

  Source: Five Thirty Eight

  Although I'm fairly bullish on Sarah Palin's prospects of winning the Republican nomination, I also subscribe to the conventional wisdom that, were she to be the nominee, she would have an awfully tough time against Barack Obama in 2012.

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• US healthcare reform: Assault and battery

  Source: Guardian Unlimited

  The White House called the vote in the Senate historic. And yet within hours of the move to begin a full debate on healthcare legislation, the delicate patchwork of political deals that led to the vote began to unravel.

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• " Thanks, Giving" One in six Americans will go hungry on this national day of thanks.

  50 Million of your family , friends, and neighbors, will go hungry this Thanksgiving . I know you already help. You make donations. You give to the Salvation Army bell ringer a quarter or two. Every year!

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• Poll: Ted Kennedy Watches Over Senate & Health Care Bill

  Saturday was a proud day for the American Senate, as they passed a resolution 60/39, to bringing the Great Kennedy Health Care Debate to the floor. A surprising leap forward for American Health Care. Lets go to the Video Tape

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• Liz Cheney Warns Against 'Walking Away' From Afghanistan, Apparently Forgetting That Dick Cheney Did Just That - video

  Source: Firedoglake

  Worst of all? Hearing Cheney try to jam Obama about the dangers of "walking away" from her father's mess — after Dick and W. did exactly that when they got the genius idea to launch their epic fail in Iraq. These criminals have absolutely no shame.

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