What do a cap and trade shooting blue-dog, environmental watch-dog, tea party Palin pal, and a 9/11 conspirator all have in common?

Rachel Maddow shows clip of Bennet-Buck debate, where Bennet nails Buck to the wall on Social Security flip-flops.

6:30pmEST Live Betrayal Debate Today: Should Obamacrats Keep Repeating Same Experiment & Expect a Diff Result? — by NormanB

Here’s a great 20+ minute video debate on Al Jazeera between Salon blogger, Glenn Greenwald, Italian investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, and WikiLeaks critic James Joyner. As always, Glenn completely obliterates the underlying rational of his adversary’s position. Enjoy!

A farewell to the longest-serving federal legislator in American history, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. Including excerpts from the tributes of his colleagues, and recommending that certain modern abusive practices be ended to restore the true glory of the institution he loved, served, and defended so well for so long – the United States Senate.

West Virginia’s First District Dem Primary is Beginning to Look more interesting.

North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham seemed to be channeling Jimmy Buffett at a Democratic forum in Raleigh Wednesday night.

Using cold, hard cash and entertainment to smarten up otherwise dumbed down, American voters

The following diary is a quote from a long response of mine to a diary by Nathan Aschbacher at FireDogLake, “Define President Barack Obama in One Word”.

It stands on it’s own OK. For context, see Nathan’s FDL diary

LIVE VIDEO: U.S. House Debates, and Eventually Votes on Health Care Reform Bill

We have to do more than just be against the war. We have to expand the debate and allow for other solutions to be discussed besides just removing the troops.