The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think. The value of burnishing centrist credentials should not be discounted. Despite what Orrin Hatch is saying on Hardball, the Democrats have a sizable moderate contingent and it is important to keep them happy and influential.
If we want to see this president succeed, a vocabulary shift is vital. The more we use leftover framing and messaging rhetoric from the Iraq War, the easier we make it for the right wing to do the same.
No one is arguing the genius of Roman Polanski, or even the pain and tragedy of his difficult life. But in the end, that has nothing to do with the crime he committed.
Tonight, the Empire State Building will illumine its spire with red and yellow lights in honor of China. While this isn't the first time it's gone red and yellow, it's the first time it's been done for Mao.
Today, Senator Boxer and I introduced our "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" that aims to put Americans back in charge of our energy future and our security.
When people like Mr. Harvey Weinstein paint the former president as harmful to Americans but Roman Polanski as merely misunderstood, they are proving every anti-Hollywood conservative's point for them.
Although I did find it interesting to hear Clinton's take on whether Obama has been the object of a right-wing conspiracy, I can tell you one thing: That most certainly was not the news story in that interview.
Obama has appointed the first U.S. copyright czar. Our profoundly broken copyright laws, rather than fostering creativity, as they were originally intended, now inhibit it at every turn.
It's not Obama's fault that Iraq and Afghanistan happened, but it will be his fault if he rushes into a threat-laden, pseudo-engagement with Iran at this historical crossroads in US-Iran relations.
What makes the president's actions during the health care debate disturbing is their common thread: If he has values, he doesn't want to talk about them, and it's hard to find many he isn't willing to give up.
Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?
Obama is a man of personal audacity, but little courage. His instinctive avoidance of head-on confrontations will leave him unprepared, psychologically and politically, for the requisite arm twisting of Israel.
During your 2010 campaign, you are going to be accused of voting for a socialist government takeover of health care, regardless of whether or not you support the public option. That frees you to vote your conscience.
The Internet's explosive growth has led to such a proliferation of content that it is now virtually infinite. To say that "content is king" in today's world is like saying "a grain of sand is precious."
By using consumer well-being as a first principal, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will consider the social costs of financial innovations.
For the first time, the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest, and Public Lands will consider a bill designed to protect millions of acres of spectacular Utah lands as wilderness.
I've always been intrigued at the left's inability to fight. That when the right gets loud and mean, the left poo-poos them as if they'll just go away or cowers in the face of adversity.
Grayson came to Congress promising to be a tribune for working Florida families. What drives Republicans mad is that he has been exactly that.
The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
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