dick cheney

Last month, when Al Gore called on the U.S. to rid itself of its reliance on carbon-based electricity, Republicans were required to trot out a worthy attack dog to denounce the former VP.

Theda Skocpol stirred up a hornets' nest (and did her best Bill O'Reilly impression) at TPM by calling upon liberals either to sit down and shut up or to join in lock step behind the Obama campaign.  Here's the

Ever wonder how our government is being influenced by conservative religious leaders? The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington would like to know, and it looks like they will, because the Bush administration has been forced to turn over the information on it's visitors.

Dick Cheney will be in attendance at the funeral of his comrade-in-arms in the fight against the Martin Luther King holiday.

From a DCCC fundraiser/action e-mail from Paul Begala:

Apparently, it didn’t take long for the “Grand Oil Party” to come unglued. After I called their fat-cat funders a bunch of dirtbags in my email to you on Sunday, they started squealing like a pig stuck under a gate.

Why on earth Lieberman caucuses with the Democrats is beyond me. He's a turncoat who has gone beyond his typical self righteous indignation to fear mongering, taking pages right out of the Karl Rove/Dick Cheney/W. Bush play book.

Lieberman is yet another reason we have to send more Democrats to the Senate, starting with Tennessee.

It's the most embarrassing failure of the Democrats I've seen since 2006. . It's letting George Bush and Dick Cheney have their way even though they're that unpopular and on their way out. It's really incredible.
-- Senator Russ Feingold

Richard Winger delivers some good clarifying information about whether or not both candidates on a presidential ticket are allowed to reside in the same state (emphasis added):

While this site is obviously a Republican site I totally agree with the basics of the list they have made.