Congress

centeriframe width=”550″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/IYQhRCs9IHM” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe divia href=”http://www.soomopublishing.com/suffrage/#!lyrics”Click here to read the lyrics/a/i/div /center pWriting a a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/news/this20in20war20women”weekly round-up/a of the various battles in the War on Women is usually pretty depressing./p pFor every battle won, there are a dozen more we’ve lost, and even those victories feel like little reason to

centeriframe width=”550″ height=”309″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/IPhh7mch5zo?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/center pThe HBO movie emGame Change/em, from the book of the same name, debuts Saturday night to a barrage of publicity. While both critics and criticism have focused on the two chapters of the book that deal with Sarah Palin, it’s nearly impossible to avoid the implications of the most important—and disqualifying—decision John McCain made in 2008.

pNumbers have never been Samuel Wurzelbacher’s strong suit. Sam—aka Joe the Plumber—spun a tale when he first sprang on to the political scene in his 2008 encounter with Barack Obama, claiming he planned to “buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year.” That, of course, never happened—or he just didn’t know what he was talking about.

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div class=”dkimg-c”iframe width=”500″ height=”369″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/iXlxe-EeSZA” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/div iAnd more:/i ul liAlternet’s Sarah Jaffe looks at rising college tuitions and a system of subsidies that help individuals rather than lowering tuitions and asks a href=”http://www.alternet.org/story/153788/2C320_for_a_college_degree_with_tuition_skyrocketing%2C_it_is_time_to_rethink_higher_education/?page=1″one of my favorite questions/a: blockquoteIn other wo

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_1204.jpg” alt=”" height=”353″ width=”550″ //div pVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/p pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/opinion/sunday/dowd-out-of-africa-and-into-iowa.html”Maureen Dowd/a gets out her cerebral microscope and goes hunting/p blockquoteNewt Gingrich’s mind is in love with itself. pIt has persuaded itself that it is brilliant when it is merely promiscuous.

div id=”uimg_right”img src=”http://www.dailykos.com/i/user/59419/Penn_Flag_275.png” / div id=”uimg_caption”Pennsylvania is quickly becoming a must-watch state/div /div pLooking ahead to the 2012 elections, one of the burning questions has been what will become of the key large states of the industrial Midwest. Ohio and Pennsylvania were central not only to the Obama election in 2008, but the Democratic surge to control of Congress in 2006 and 2008.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/Chris_Piascik_Millionaires.jpg” alt=”" width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Illustrator a href=”http://chrispiascik.com/daily-drawings/millionaires/”Chris Piascik/a paints a picture of a massive disconnect in our political system/div /div Most people in Congress are very, very wealthy. It’s the natural by-product of a campaign system engineered by and for the benefit of the richest Americans.

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/28416/PalinPAC.jpg” alt=”" width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”The front page of Sarah Palin’s site urges citizen action against government corruption. Wait. Maybe it’s on a different page. A different site? On her Twitter account?