As I have said before, the Democratic Party does not have a supermajority because it is not one party. The Democratic Party is really two parties: the progressive party, which consists primarily of people who are new to Washington and are therefore not yet completely in the pocket of corporate lobbyists, and the blue dog party, which is nothing but ( Read more... )

The Senate finance committee just released a version of the healthcare reform bill that is 100% reform-free. Members of Congress like Chuck Grassley who find it politically takes you to have a (D) next to their names would have us believe that they are being "bipartisan" and the fact that they get so many contributions from companies (e.g. Grassley ( Read more... )