Americans’ growing skepticism of BP’s assertions about its work to staunch the rupture of the crude oil reservoirs under the Gulf of Mexico has now reached the U.S. Senate.

There is an invisible toxic threat as well, from hydrocarbons that dissolve from the oil spill, then disperse through the water, remaining toxic but invisible to the human eye.

Senators are offering limited legislation to deal with the problem of risky offshore drilling, presenting bills that affect only certain areas, or only for a certain time.

A coalition of Democratic senators is now stepping into the gap between energy reality and the Obama energy bill, promising to block any bill that fails to remove current pro-industry measures providing favors to coal mining companies and expansion of offshore drilling.

Gene Green, Democrat from Texas, proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College on January 7th, but it hasn’t advanced through the legislative process at all since February.

Democrats may have the majority of seats in the Senate, but the Republicans still appear to have the control. The Democratic-Republican distinction appears not to have anything near the meaning as the progressive-regressive split, and the progressives are clearly in the minority.

The Feds are investigating Paul Magliocchetti and a web of his associates for evidence of corruption in military contracting. The man was profligate, handing out $368,013 of his own money in hard contributions, possibly tossing in soft contributions and allegedly getting his friends, family and employees to kick in large multiples of the same. These [...]

The following are the United States Senators who voted for this betrayal of the Constitution. 20 of these 69 senators are Democrats. Without the Democrats helping out, the Republicans couldn’t have gotten the FISA Amendments Act passed. Which ones are the Republicans, and which ones are the Democrats? You figure it out. I can’t tell the difference.