In the current session of Congress, John Linder has not voted for one single piece of significant progressive legislation. There’s no way that Linder’s retirement can be reinterpreted to support claims of a solidly progressive congressional retreat.

On his congressional web page, Georgia Democrat Sanford Bishop boasts that he “has authored a wide range of bills and resolutions.” In the sense that width is a measurement requiring two points, Bishop is technically correct. To date, there have been two and only two points of action for Sanford Bishop in the [...]

Previous projects of Americans for Prosperity have included astroturf campaigns on behalf of tobacco companies in order to promote smoking in public places. Americans for Prosperity refuses to tell which corporations are providing the funding for its work against health care reform.

Phil Gingrey doesn’t really oppose government control over health care programs either. He crafted earmarks to support such programs just this summer, after all.

I have to tell you in all honesty that until tonight, I thought Representative Lynn Westmoreland was a woman.
Why is that? It’s not because I haven’t been paying attention to congressional affairs. In one form or another, I’ve been writing about the U.S. Congress and congressional legislation for over a decade. [...]

Even if the funds from the bill were used to establish a National Climate Service, what would the problem be? Climate Change is a grave problem that’s ripping billions and billions of dollars out of the American economy every year, and putting large numbers of American lives at risk.

Election 2008 is just about to begin…
(no, I’m not a month late with this)
…in Louisiana and Georgia.
In Georgia, there’s a runoff Senate election where bad-old Senator Saxby Chambliss (Zero Percent Progressive voting record) faces James Martin. The voting there ends today.
In Louisiana, there’s a delayed general election for the seat of increasingly [...]

Heckman is a fool. If he had actually read the FISA Amendments Act, Doug Heckman would never say that the FISA Amendments Act clarifies anything. He would come to the obvious conclusion that the FISA Amendments Act is written in order to be unclear. The law appears to give some protections, only to take them away in separate sections of text.

When Congressman Broun’s amendment to forbids some Americans from getting married, it undermines the 14th amendment to the Constitution. Congressman Broun’s constitutional amendment says that equality in America is only for some people. Within Congressman Broun’s new vision for America, equality will be traded in for inequality. Paul Broun’s constitutional amendment is anti-equality, and it’s anti-marriage.

Congressman James Marshall was the only Democrat in the House of Representatives to vote against children’s health insurance. The only one. In this time of worsening economic crisis, to withhold funding for children’s health insurance is despicable. Jim Marshall has supported special tax breaks for the wealthy, but opposes funding children’s health insurance? Such a position reveals a stunning lack of compassion.