Welcome to the emergent party movement. I left the Democrats by the end of 2007, when it became clear that they did not care about torture.

I have spent this election campainging for Warren Mosler, nominee of the Independent Party of Connecticut and author of the Center of the Universe blog.

As you say, leaving the party is indescribably liberating.

Maybe this is what Obama intended. Maybe he is doing exactly what he wanted to do.

I had a similar reaction. This idea would further destablize the region. We need fewer nukes, not more.

Polls show overwhelming support for health care reform.

that is why it is worth fighting. The think tanks play a crucial role in marginalizing progressive values and mainstreaming the elite's crack pot schemes.

You sound like the Catholic church. Some things cannot be swept under the rug, torture is one of them.

any Republican will lead any Democrat in Virginia, it will be a long hard slog to November, and very uphill. Tim Kaine trailed Kilgore, a Republican candidate so weak you had to hear him to believe it, by 10 points all the way until Katrina. And even after Katrina it was very hard for Kaine to pull ahead. I will always think that the Scooter Libby indictment elected Kaine (that and Kilgore's unbelievably underwhelming performance in the debates, you really had to hear Kilgore to understand how bad he was).

No one should be surprised or downhearted by McDonnell's lead this early in the year.

Somebody needs to explain to Lieberman that advocating for a war crime is itself a war crime and that there is no statue of limitations for war crimes.

Massachusetts system is not a workable model

Am I to understand that the NYT covered a protest in Kiev, but not Wall Street?

Sheesh.

The fact that Dennis PNAC Ross served as a foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign was an instant tip off that Obama was not serious about changing the direction of our foreign mis-policy.

Don't see why the C Kennedy debacle is Patterson's problem, unless New Yorkers really wanted Caroline K.

Seems like the budget debacle would be a bigger issue.

Gupta lied on national television, in any healthy political culture that would be a career killer.

Republicans for Single Payer

Fitzgerald has heard all of those calls, if he did not see anything actionable, why should the rest of us think there is any there there?