Today, only a slim majority of House Democrats, 53%, voted for the amendment to end the war in Afghanistan. 42% joined the House Republicans to keep the Afghanistan war going on even longer.

There are still many people in Congress who are dedicated to standing against equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans. Among the anti-gay politicians voting for this week’s bill of anti-gay bigotry were 16 congressional Democrats, named in this article.

Cecil Bothwell, who is campaigning to succeed Heath Shuler as the representative of North Carolina’s 11th congressional district, has applied for an endorsement by the Progressive Democrats of America. One of the most significant items in Bothwell’s agenda, as identified in his application to the PDA, is the reduction of wasteful spending through the military.

The light may be on, but nobody’s home. As the Sunlight Foundation documented with its copy of an intercepted invitation, a fundraising dinner party was scheduled for January 18 2011 in the infamous 446 New Jersey Avenue townhome of anti-immigration and pay-day lender Tim Rupli. The beneficiary: a “3rd & Long” PAC run by Blue [...]

Representative Heath Shuler of North Carolina has an interesting conception of the authority of a Congressman. After complaining that Nancy Pelosi never talks to him, Shuler made a grab for sour grapes. From Politico: “Pelosi wouldn’t be welcome in his or other centrists’ districts, he said. Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Assistant Leader James [...]

Heath Shuler is challenging Nancy Pelosi for the position of Speaker of the House on the grounds that the Democrats should be led by someone who will apply the failed Blue Dog strategy to the entire Democratic caucus.

Not a single one of the Democrats who voted against the health care reform bill has a progressive legislative rating about 50 percent.

Heath Shuler was was charging admission to that BBQ, and a very high price of admission at that: $1,000 for a plate of BBQ.

The Larochelles were seeking to separate the flag from the Constitution, and to make it a symbol of religious belief – and officially recognized by Congress as such. Congressman Mike Turner was more than happy to help them do this – and to try to use the boy scout as a tool to push religion as a wedge issue – when he introduced H.R. 3779.

To vote for this bill was to insult the Constitution of the United States of America, and in doing so, to insult the USA itself. A vote in favor of this bill is a betrayal of the Oath of Office every member of Congress has taken. It is unpatriotic, and a grave breach of trust.