Last week, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken’s anti-rape amendment to a Defense spending bill. Hence, the GOP/pro-life/anti-healthcare senators, including Sen. John McCain, voted as a pro-rape block.

The case and the vote hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Thankfully, The Daily Show pays attention and put the absurdity of the GOP vote into a larger context.

Members of Congress soon will cast votes that show us where they stand on the Employee Free Choice Act…We’ve come along way from where we were several years ago.

We as a movement fighting for health care need to ask ourselves “What Would Wellstone Do?”

Does this mean that Minnesota Gov.Tim Pawlenty will sign the papers for Al Franken?

Two healthcare bombshells hit yesterday afternoon: The Republicans finally decided that having a health secretary to manage a potential pandemic was more important than grandstanding on abortion and confirmed Kathleen Sebelius. Sen. Arlen Specter announced that he would cross the aisle and caucus with the Democrats, which, at least in theory gives the Dems a filibuster-proof majority if and when they seat Al Franken.

The prospects for healthcare reform in the Senate brightened appreciably this week with Al Franken being declared the winner of the Minnesota senate race and key Republicans making bipartisan overtures.

Chuck Todd on Minnesota’s Al Franken, or How Not to Report Election Results

There’s no doubt that the Democratic leadership has betrayed their progressive supporters and Americans as a whole by not protecting their Constitutional rights from Republican abuse of power. It’s hard to imagine a legitimate scenario where this betrayal could have served our best interest.