Democratic Senate Candidate Appears To Throw In The Towel
With the enemy at the gates, and facing heavy casualties, Democrats in Congress are preparing to do what any beleaguered army does: head for the hills and leave booby-traps behind. The bigger the margin Republicans pile up next Tuesday, the less likely it is that the Democrats will be able to -- or want to -- do much when Congress reconvenes. They will want to do the minimum, pushing the toughest decisions on taxes, spending and debt forward to a newer, presumably more Republican, 112th Congress. It may be the only fun they're going to have.
The list of Halliburton's crimes goes on and on. And yet, somehow, it goes on piling up profits. How? Because of its deep connections to Washington. Halliburton isn't on the ballot next Tuesday, but it might as well be.
As a nation, we can no longer afford to delay difficult decisions. It is our hope that this list of spending reductions can serve as a starting point for long overdue reforms and lay the groundwork for a bipartisan approach to those decisions.
Most of the punditry continues to assume that the die is cast -- that Republicans will win control of the House this fall. Certainly that outcome is entirely possible. But there is a Democratic path to victory next Tuesday.
Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread lawbreaking, there's still a popular point of view that says fraudulent foreclosures are "a technicality" and what we're seeing is neither a systemic problem nor a crime wave of epidemic proportions. Actually, it's both.
In ruling today, Judge Patrick Parrish seemed confused and unmoved by the argument that the jury is entitled to hear the conditions of Omar Khadr's confinement and his treatment during interrogations.
Why do so many working class Americans hold such detrimental false assumptions about their place in American society? Why this disconnect between self-interest and voting patterns?
The Republican goal all along has been to destroy Obama's presidency, and the next two years are going to make the first two look like they were playing tiddlywinks. Even an impeachment trial is not out of the question.
In the mad rush to pull a guise together, it's important to ensure your makeup doesn't look scarier than your costume. Here are three simple and stylish looks that will transform your basic look into something frightfully glamorous.
Today's Republicans are far from their predecessors. Beyond political differences with Obama and the Democrats, they've been making war on reality itself, which should be a major issue of the campaign's final days.
Glenn Beck's continual contemptuous statements against the President of the United States is obviously inappropriate as a programming choice for both facilities on military bases and airing on the American Forces Network.
It will happen. Marijuana will be legalized in California. In the interests of public health and safety, human rights, personal liberties, and sound fiscal policy it makes far more sense that it happen next Tuesday, not the next election.
The time has come to rise up against the unthinking, immoral acts that are brought about by religious views -- to state the case for science, reason, and honest compassion.
I'm not a fan of Christine O'Donnell and I consider her an embarrassment to the GOP. However, if it is possible for a tabloid gossip site to lower itself any further than Gawker habitually does, it scored big today.
The number one most favored brand among Democrats appears nowhere among the top ten most favored brands among Republicans. Ditto the reverse.
What was the silver bullet that made virtually all losses disappear even though every aspect of the administration's initial loss estimates proved too optimistic? There was none. They made losses disappear the old-fashioned way, with fictional accounting.
The erosion of Barack Obama's popularity has lessons in it for every American who wishes to remain interesting and current, both professionally and personally.
If Prop 19 wins, more states will follow California's lead -- just as they did after Prop 215 passed 14 years ago. The White House's veiled threat to stand in the way of its implementation is mostly smoke and mirrors.
A professional horseplayer once told me that compared to handicapping horse races, elections were a cakewalk. "Polls can be inaccurate," he said. "Gamblers are accurate or they lose." There's considerable evidence he was on the money.
Barbara Boxer has been standing up and fighting for us during her three terms in the Senate. Now it's time for us to fight for her.
For six long years, we have amused ourselves watching John Kramer and his cohorts strive to teach random citizens to value their lives. If this is to be the end, then it is the end of something worth remembering.
Last week, we asked riders of the HuffPost Sanity Bus to tell us the one thing they would do to help restore sanity to America, and offered free Flipcams for the most compelling responses. Here are some of our favorites.
Joe Miller's candidacy is in big trouble. A series of gaffes, inconsistencies and controversial statements have come one on top of another, causing a trend that can only be described as a campaign death spiral.
I'm coming to you live, people, from the home of my friends Sara and Jared, for my first and last ever Project Runway finale live-blog.
If the Republicans win either or both Houses of Congress, even though they will not have the presidency, they will hold the power of the purse and will wield it with a ruthlessness harking back to the pre-New Deal era.
It's now painfully obvious that President Obama's election, far from hastening a post-partisan utopia, has led to near-absolute polarization. To deal with a re-energized right, Democrats must alter their political strategy accordingly.
