Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin will earn no points with the Law And Order segment of American society, the segment that pushes for ever-more harsh, broad and long-term punishment against convicted criminals. These are the people who banish people convicted of sex offenses to live under bridges after they have been released from prison. These [...]

In 2008, there was a great deal of hope for meaningful health care reform. In 2009, those hopes are evaporating, as it looks like the “reform” legislation is little more than a shell game that won’t provide Americans with the coverage that they need. This time around, the Democrats don’t have the Republicans to blame. It’s the Blue Dog Democrats who have wrecked the reform process.

A good place to start a campaign is to explain what you can do to improve voters’ lives, rather than telling them what a bunch of losers they all are.

Business interests have had their interests catered to by the federal government for a long time now. This pro-business agenda has not brought about a great increase in employment. It’s brought us an increasing income gap between workers and business executives.

the Republicans in Congress are always complaining about how Democrats engage in too much wasteful government spending. Yet, here is Republican Representative Forbes asking for $200,000 to build a display in a visitor center.

Last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stepped into the transportation crisis of Southern California with a funding proposal. For a rail system? No. Rohrabacher’s answer to the transportation crisis in Southern California is more of the same.

Rep. John Conyers‘ remarks on July 24, 2009 to the National Press Club concerning investigations of unconstitutional behavior by members of the Bush administration (my transcription of public NPC video): Eric Holder must appoint a special counsel to review the Bush administration abuses of power and misconduct. A criminal probe: he’s got to do that. [...]

Why the call for a new study on red snapper populations, and why from the Department of Commerce, instead of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is actually qualified and prepared to carry out fish population studies? The answer has more to do with commerce than it has to do with science.

The public housing program funded in H.R. 3288 also ought to please conservatives, given that the form of housing it supports is a change from old public housing programs, which created high crime areas by concentrating a combination of desperate and vulnerable people through tracts of purely low-income housing. The new program demolishes the old projects and replaces them with mixed-income housing.

Kirsten Gillibrand and Carolyn Maloney, two members of the U.S. Congress from New York, are both planning to run for New York’s Senate seat in 2010. Maloney is a long-term congressional veteran with a lot of legislation already under her belt; she was a principal architect of credit card protection earlier this year for example. [...]