Flint women 51 and younger deserve a choice

By: Monday May 31, 2010 8:51 am

Women aged 51 years of age and younger have never had the chance to vote for a Pro-Choice Congressional candidate.

SeaScum Rep. Stupak Dithers: Let’s Not Punish BP

By: Thursday May 6, 2010 1:02 pm

Award for SeaScum of the Day (like pondscum, but bigger!), worst statement du jour on Oilpocalypse. Today: Bart Stupak doesn’t want to punish BP.

Stupak: A Case Study In Political Miscalculation

By: Friday April 9, 2010 11:32 am

Moving into the 2010 election cycle, Democrats need to decide who they are and what they stand for.

Weekly Pulse: Obama Signs Health Reform Bill, Backlash Begins

By: Wednesday March 24, 2010 9:07 am

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

Yesterday, President Obama signed health care reform into law. As Mike Lillis explains in the Washington Independent, the bill now proceeds to the Senate for reconciliation. The whole process could be complete by the end of the week. Republicans and their allies have already moved to challenge reform in court.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Bart Stupak and “Pro-Choice” Democrats?

By: Friday March 19, 2010 9:07 pm

Will the Pro-Choice Caucus help roll back Roe v. Wade?

Good Ol’ Boys

By: Friday March 19, 2010 4:01 pm

The GOB will protect their own…from Washington to the prairies. But that doesn’t mean we have to let them get away with it… sunshine’s exposing their hypocrisy and their misogyny.

Stupak Had It Right

By: Friday March 19, 2010 10:38 am

We’ve gotten nothing but lip service since day one of this administration. The lesson hurts like hell considering the source, but one guy had it all figured it out. Maybe it’s time we learned something from him.

Weekly Pulse: Pelosi Makes Her Move; GOP Rep. Calls for Coup

By: Wednesday March 17, 2010 9:08 am

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has laid out a strategy to pass health care reform in the next couple of days by allowing the House to vote on the details of the reconciliation package instead of the Senate bill itself. As usual, progressives are fretting that winning will make them look bad. On the other hand, conservatives are baying for blood and calling for revolution.

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