Joe Lieberman thinks asking those in their 50s to pay $5,000 a year more for health insurance is “taking care” of them.

This morning, the Politico made news by reporting that someone at the White House had ordered Harry Reid to cut a deal with Joe Lieberman on health care. The White House denied the report. “The White House is not pushing Senator Reid in any direction,” spokesman Dan Pfeiffer says. “We are working hand in hand with [...]

Ecuador just released a report accusing the US of participation in the assassination of Raul Reyes in 2008. Sort of makes you wonder whether our favorite assassination contractors were involved, doesn’t it?

The National Security Archive has released a list of dates for which the White House will restore emails under its settlement agreement. That list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working [...]

Today, SCOTUS declined to review an Appeals Court decision that ruled that Rummy and 10 other DOD officials are immune from suit for torture. The Court’s denial of review of Rasul, et al., v. Myers, et al. (09-227) leaves intact a federal appeals court ruling that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and ten military officers [...]

The Economic Policy Institute provides a much needed counter-weight to those cheerleading the use of Cadillac-as-Chevy taxes to pay for the Senate health care bill. It shows, generally, that the millionaire’s tax used to fund the House bill is far more progressive than the Cadillac-as-Chevy tax used to fund the Senate bill, which ends up [...]

Blago has asked for FBI interview materials on Rahm, Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and the SEIU officials named in documentation.

The press, other members of Congress, everyone have to stop reporting over and over again that the Bad Nelson and Holy Joe “oppose” some aspect of health care reform. Two key senators criticized the most recent healthcare compromise Sunday, saying the policies replacing the public option are still unacceptable. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben [...]

Nate Silver asks why Democrats aren’t cheering the Administration’s accomplishments on the economy more loudly. Here’s why I’m not doing so.

The news that drug and gang money kept our finance system afloat last year supports my contention that Citi, in this day and age, is not all that different from what BCCI was in its day.