There may be a great deal of talk in the coming weeks about a millionaire’s tax, but there will be no action. Republicans won’t budge, no matter how low Obama sets the limit on contributions from wealthy Americans.

Without any public debate, and without any significant concessions from the House Republicans, Harry Reid and John McConnell introduced S. 1038, the PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011. The legislation will extend the most abusive spying powers of the Patriot Act, which were actually supposed to expire years ago, given their extreme nature, for three and half more years.

Already, politicians in Congress, eager to take a posture of toughness, are proposing that the abandonment of fair trials be expanded. How far will these unjust, unconstitutional convictions go before someone in our government has the courage to stand up to them?

Which members of Congress and congressional candidates have accepted money from Don Blankenship, the CEO of Massey Energy, the coal company whose increasingly unsafe record of mining operations culminated in this week’s Upper Big Branch coal mine methane explosion.

39 members of the United States Senate chose to stand with Lisa Murkowski, in opposition to responsible efforts to slow climate change. These senators, chose to align themselves with the short-term corporate profits on the very day when NASA’s Goddard Institute reported that the last decade has been the warmest on record.

Which of these three holidays do you think best represents the vision that the United States Senate ought to pursue in its work: Peace Day, Constitution Day or Steel Day?

“He’s a control freak! He wants to control everything that happens.” – Senator Jim Bunning, referring to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Supporter of denying women the right to sue for job discrimination? Senator Jim Bunning. Supporter of legislation to let the government spy on citizens without a warrant? Senator Jim Bunning. Supporter of legislation [...]

His statement during the debate over the FISA Amendments Act reveals that Senator Mitch McConnell either doesn’t know what the Constitution actually says, or he doesn’t care. Whichever is the case, Senator McConnell has proved himself to be incompetent to serve as a member of the United States Senate.

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.