Deep Thought

From Bobby Jindahl's Republican rebuttal to the Obama speech last night: While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legisl...

Fivethirtyeight posted a special article written by George Lakoff and submitted to fivethirtyeight, entitled George Lakoff on the Obama Code...

Socks, formerly the Clintons' cat, died today. When the Clintons moved out of the White House, they gave Socks to press secretary Betty ...

DEEP THOUGHT got an exclusive interview with an anonymous Republican Senator, who agreed to the interview on the condition that we keep his...

The other day I put up a post entitled "An open letter to Paul Eckerstrom." It had to do with how disappointed I was, including in...

The astronaut worked carefully, adjusting the solar panel which collected energy for the space station. Space walks were rare nowadays, with...

President Obama has said repeatedly that he wants to reach out to Republicans. He's also put actions behind those words. He kept George ...

The President needs support from the Senate, as we saw this week, to get his bills passed. And equally on display this week was that despite...

BACKGROUND Two weeks ago the state committee of the Democratic Party met and voted out incumbent chair Don Bivens in favor of Paul Eckerstr...

Senator Tom Harkin and Representative Raul Grijalva are both pushing the same idea: Howard Dean as the new Secretary for Health and Human Se...

On groundhog day: President Obama saw his shadow. It's still larger than anyone else's. But house Republicans are still working on a...

Lilly Ledbetter worked for nearly twenty years at the Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Alabama. She became a supervisor at the plant and file...

The Obama administration is rapidly making it clear that the 'coalition of the willing,' or'for us or against us' view of th...

Barack Obama had a meeting earlier today with a group of House Republican leaders to discuss the proposed stimulus bill. He did as he had pl...

NOTE: I POSTED THIS COLUMN ON ANOTHER BLOG AS WELL, Coldheartedtruth. Commenters corrected me. I've edited this version to reflect the a...

This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say today: If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would enco...

One year ago I wrote a post entitled, seven years of the Bush economy . Well, today it's time to update and close the book on it. Of cou...

Back in the 1988 campaign, there was a discussion of Presidential qualities. High on the list was what came to be called, "the vision t...

I'm really having a hard time keeping shut up about this one, so I will go ahead and vent. In an earlier post I discussed the successes ...

Most Presidents, ten days before the end of their administration, would be busy packing, signing letters of reference for their staff, solic...