Deborah's US Liberal Politics Blog

The judicial and professional record of Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. is decades long, and merits in-depth study by the US Senate before and during confirmation hearings on Alito's nomination to ... Read More

Blogosphere conventonal wisdom this Sunday afternoon buzzes that either Judge Samuel Alito, Jr. or Judge Michael Luttig, both federal Appeals Court judges, will be President Bush's new Supreme ... Read More

CNN's Christiane Amanpour was in the Baghdad courtroom on October 19, 2005 when Saddam Hussein made his first trial appearance. She, along with the late Peter Jennings of ABC, ... Read More

The indictment today of Vice- President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby is the third just in October 2005 of Bush Administration insiders indicted on federal criminal charges. Lewis "Scooter" ... Read More

The Toledo-Blade newspaper of Ohio is reporting this afternoon that "A federal grand jury has indicted Tom Noe, the former Maumee coin dealer suspected of laundering money into President Bush’s ... Read More

To no one's surprise, White House Counsel Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name from nomination to be a Supreme Court Justice. Key Republican senators, including conservative Sam Brownback (R-KS) and ... Read More

CNN reports that the 2000th American soldier was killed in Iraq today, since the US attacked and invaded Iraq in March 2003. As of yet, the American public hasn't been ... Read More

From blogger Steve Clemons at The Washington Note regarding Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson's name..... "An uber-insider source has just reported ... Read More

The New York Times is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney was an Executive branch source of the illegal leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson's name. The Times reports ... Read More

The blogosphere abounds with Cheney-Rice rumors, in the wake of the Valerie Plame Wilson-CIA leak investigation.... From blogger Fred Alan...."Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office ... Read More

From ABC's This Week program this morning , I learned a new moniker for a large subset of liberals....Merlot Democrats. Host George Stephanopoulos chided DNC Chair Howard Dean about stories ... Read More

In a letter sent out today to many of us, US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is decidedly apoplectic over Condoleezza Rice's Senate testimony Wednesday. Seems that Dr. Rice spouted a ... Read More

I live on the outskirts of one of the most conservative areas in the US. And yes, I have plenty of conservative friends. Most of them are experiencing their first ... Read More

"Forty-year old legislation mandating non-discriminatory hiring practices is being slowly dismantled by this Republican Congress, with approval of the President," writes Kathy Gill, About.com's guide to US Politics. Kathy continues "On ... Read More

Yesterday, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid released this statement, "“Today, the Judiciary Committee held the second hearing of this session on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. I commend those members of the ... Read More

I recently had the privilege of hearing Luis Moises Escalante speak at my church. Mr. Escalante is an official of Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and he was a US ... Read More

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has $14 million in the bank for her 2006 re-election campaign after raising more than $5 million in the three-month period that ended Sept. ... Read More

Word comes today that, with Bush Administration approval, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Congressman from 1983-97 and UN Ambassador from 1997-98, will travel next week to North Korea ... Read More

The good news is that, before the Senate departed October 7 for a ten-day break, it unanimously voted 97-0 to approve a $445 billion defense spending bill that included the ... Read More

Today, Al Gore announced that he has "absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again." The liberal blogosphere has recently been rumbling with rumors of a ... Read More

In another of his consumer-conscious, crime-busting crusades, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced that his office has worked with eBay, the nation’s leading online retailer, to ... Read More

For Republicans hunting for smoking-gun proof that Harriet Miers is not a true-blue super-conservative who, as a Supreme Court Justice, would vote exactly how George Bush and Dr. James Dobson ... Read More

Racial profiling is the subject of the week in New York. To secure the safety of New Yorkers on the city subway system, is it necessary, or morally acceptable, ... Read More

CBS News reports today, "President Bush's overall job approval rating has reached the lowest ever measured in this poll, and evaluations of his handling of Iraq, the economy and even ... Read More

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee announced that the 2005 prize-winner is the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Egyptian-born General Director since 1997, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei. "The committee said they ... Read More

Over petulant objections and prolonged personal lobbying by President Bush and Vice-President Cheney, the Republican-dominated Senate delivered a painful rebuke to the White House by overwhelmingly voting, 90 to ... Read More

For the past six years, conservative Republicans have taken to demonizing everyone not fully supportive of their agenda (If you're not with us, you're against us) with the wacky furor ... Read More

The nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers by President Bush to be Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court has inspired a broad spectrum of reactions. Lots of Republicans are ... Read More

This morning on ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos said..... "Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially ... Read More

Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a passionate environmental advocate, delivered today's weekly Democratic radio address. In it, she returned ... Read More