As Senate Republicans... especially the 21 up for reelection in 2008... continue to wail and whine about having to vote next week on the non-binding resolution that formally ... Read More

On January 25, 2006, Sen. Barack Obama, who is pondering a 2008 run for the White House, delivered a speech in which he surprised pundits by announcing: "I am absolutely determined ... Read More

Did you notice two words conspicuously, shamefully missing from the President's State of the Union Address last week? Missing Word #1 - KATRINA Despite President Bush's nationally-televised grand promises on September ... Read More

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." - - - - Montesquieu ... Read More

I laughed out loud at Jon Stewart's The Daily Show last night when he breathlessly snickered at CNN's latest 2008 poll results, "YES! 21 months to the election... Who's winning???" ... Read More

"They don't have a plan" stated newly elected U.S. Senator Jim Webb of Virginia this week about the Bush Administration and the Iraq War. Senator Webb, who will deliver ... Read More

I'm pleased to announce the inaugural Guest Columnist Op-Ed here at About.com's Guide to Liberal Politics: A reasoned argument by Brad Friedman that Democrats should be granted the right to ... Read More

The Senate's proposed resolution declaring that "it is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen its military involvement in Iraq, particularly by escalating the United States ... Read More

Be sure to take About.com's first Straw Poll for 2008 Presidential Race by Kathy Gill, About.com's Guide to US Political News. And while you're there, subscribe via iTunes to Kathy's ... Read More

This morning, I received an email from Senator Barack Obama, stating that today, he is filing papers to form a Presidential Exploratory Committee for 2008. Such a committee is the ... Read More

At the November 2006 groundbreaking of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Sen. Barack Obama, the only African-American member of the U.S. Senate, observed in his remarkably honest, ... Read More

Per all the polls, the American public vehemently disagrees with President Bush's decision to escalate the Iraq War. And now suspicions... and fears... are rapidly growing that the renegade Mr. ... Read More

Word leaked today that centrist Democrat Harold Ford, Jr., 2006 Democratic senatorial candidate and 5-term former Congressman, has been offered the Chairman's seat of the influential yet controversial Democratic Leadership Council ... Read More

I'm irritated over scattered press reports diminishing the importance of House Democrats' push to pass an ambitious slate of bills in their first 100 legislative hours in the 110th Congress. ... Read More

U.S voters sent an unmistakable message to President Bush at the polls in November 2006: Start withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, and present us with an exit plan. Now. The ... Read More

All eyes are on Washington D.C. as the new 110th Congress is sworn into office, and as Democrats retake control of both the Senate and House of Representatives for the ... Read More

Across the country yesterday, newly elected or reelected governors began to take office. Before the 2006 elections, 28 of 50 state governorships were held by Republicans, and 22 by Democrats. ... Read More