Helpful Advice from the Reality-Based Community

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  February 5th at 11:53 AM  | 

I want to recommend a strategy for Senate Democrats. They ought to stop playing around, and lay down the law to the Republicans. No more Mr. Nice Guy: The administration should use its supposed vaunted community organizing to build public pressure for its version of the stimulus, and then Obama, Pelosi, and Reid should hold a press conference where they say: 1) The only reason | Read More »

Ready for Another Helping of McCain-Feingold?

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  December 15th at 07:32 AM  | 

Did the headline put your stomach in knots? I thought so. But after McCain-Feingold (I), McCain-Lieberman, and McCain-Kennedy, it was inevitable that eventually Senator McCain would engage in a bipartisan reform effort that would make conservatives happy, right? Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) are putting their band of reformers back together and hitting the halls of Capitol Hill in pursuit of their | Read More »