First they asked for 50 seats. Now they say they need 60. What’s next? Will the Senate Democrats need 70 seats in 2010 before they can finally keep their promises?

Besides the highly objectionable right wing ideology Chet Edwards favors, there’s the problem of his lack of experience. Chet Edwards has represented a fringe congressional district in a fringe state. he doesn’t have any executive experience to balance Obama’s legislative experience. In the House of Representatives, Chet Edwards has never managed to hold anything but obscure leadership positions in minor subcommittees.

Any time now, Democratic voters will receive word about the selection Barack Obama has made about who will be his vice presidential running mate. It’s a rather undemocratic process, the way that the successor to the President is chosen, and it encourages us to be passive, merely receiving the news instead of being involved in [...]

Evan Bayh’s right wing legislative score is 50 percent. Evan Bayh’s progressive legislative score is only 19 percent. If Barack Obama selects Evan Bayh as his Vice President, he might as well select a Republican.

Arizona Republican congressman John Shadegg recently declared that “Congress can be so boring.” Before that, he had a hard time deciding whether he actually wanted to run for re-election to the U.S. Congress. Well, now he’s having a hard time deciding whether he wants to even talk about the issues before his district. Democrat Bob [...]

As the price of gasoline goes down, the Republicans’ twisted logic for expanded offshore oil drilling becomes increasingly incoherent. At the very least, Nancy Pelosi should seek to delay a vote on offshore drilling. Time is on the side of the opponents of new drilling.

If I were a Republican in the House of Representatives right now, I would reconsider pushing the idea of offshore drilling. Expanding offshore drilling wouldn’t bring a drop of oil to the marketplace for years and years, and even then, the amount of oil would be so tiny that it could only bring gasoline prices down by a few pennies per gallon.

Poor, poor John Shadegg. The Arizona Republican admits that to him the Congress is “so boring,” even as he runs for yet another term of office. It’s a little sad watching him, like the little kid in fuzzy jammies who has stayed up a little too long at mom and dad’s party and is starting [...]

The Republicans in the House of Representatives are determined to actually punish schools that allow students to sing the national anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance in freedom.

Offer an amendment to change the authorization for “mercury, lead, cadmium and oil” offshore drilling, and changing the name of the bills to the “Mercury, Lead, Cadmium and Oil Offshore Drilling Act of 2008″.