Nancy Pelosi showed a lot of guts to come before the Netroots Nation audience who were ready to ask some hard questions. I don't think most of us were happy about her FISA vote, but she told us it was better than it had been and the thing that caused her and the House to have to go along was that 17 Democratic Senators made it possible for the Senate to send them ...

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Wow! I just ordered the book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, yesterday from Amazon via free shipping, but it was already waiting in my mailbox this morning! That's as fast as Netflix. Sweet. The TV networks and mainstream press jumped all over Scott McClellan's memoir, but mainstream media continues to ignore this book. Talk about spineless. And so I'm putting my money where my heart is by ordering this book. All the debates about the Iraq ...

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Brad DeLong regards Der Spiegle's interview with Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq, and concludes:Is there anything left to say?Yes, there is. Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Richard Cheney. Do it now.While we're at it, Let's impeach John McCain. Preemptively.--ml

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Both John Kerry and George W. Bush take advantage of biased and pre-organized crowds to deflect them from actually having to answer questions.

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Leave it to Keith Olbermann to call a spade a spade. No matter how Bush/McCain spins this, "time horizon" is a euphemism for timeline. Whatever. Let's just go back to first principles.

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There are probably a lot of people here in Austin who wish that the Netroots Nation organizers hadn't scheduled Nancy Pelosi to talk with us at 8:45 AM in the morning. But nevertheless, a fairly large crowd of us are here in Exhibit Hall Four to have a conversation with the third most powerful elected official in the United States: the Speaker of the House of Representatives.Congressman Lloyd Doggett is currently introducing the Speaker and ...

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