These Democratic Party senators have lost the support of progressive Democrats. Not only will we no longer support these senators for re-election, we will oppose them. We will do whatever we can, within the law, to make sure that they are not re-elected.

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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards talks a good talk. Senator Russ Feingold knows that all too well.
When it comes to the walk, Edwards’s record in the Senate shows something quite different. Senator Feingold discusses the inconsistency between what John Edwards says and what John Edwards has actually done in an interview […]

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Representative Robert Wexler has been using outrage surrounding the impeachment issue to funnel traffic to his re-election website, where citizens are told they can sign up for news and contribute to the impeachment cause. But the small print shows that contributions go to the re-elect Wexler campaign, and those who sign up are giving […]

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In the NPR Presidential Debate of December 4 2007, Democratic presidential candidates were confronted with the sentiment of a North Carolina resident:
We mentioned that we’ve been taking questions from listeners in recent weeks about this debate, and one is on a small issue that, I think, points to a large concern. It comes from Tally […]

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On December 4 2007, Steve Inskeep of NPR News asked the Democratic presidential candidates whether they, if elected, would encourage American citizens to ferret out and turn in illegal immigrants to law enforcement authorities. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio answered the question by evoking the Americanism of Emma Lazarus:
Rely on the Constitution. You know, […]

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Senator Joseph Biden rejects the notion that in the face of dangerous Chinese-made products, there’s not much to be done:
With the WTO guidelines, we could stop these products coming in now. This president doesn’t act. We have much more leverage on China than they have on us.
Let’s get something straight here. We’re making them into […]

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In the Democratic Party presidential candidates’ debate of November 15 2007, Hillary Clinton explained why she “agreed completely” that national security was more important than human rights: “I mean, the first obligation of the President of the United States is to protect and defend the United States of America.”
Dennis Kucinich has issued a retort to […]

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You may have noticed there’s not much written here about Mike Gravel. That is, in part, because the Democratic presidential candidate has not had much new to say since he began his campaign (only one blog post in two months, for example). But it’s also because Gravel left such a sour taste in […]

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There’s a scandal brewing for the Hillary Clinton for President campaign, and it has to do with a lot of the problems we’ve been having under George W. Bush. The issue is secrecy of government records. For Bush, that problem has to do with a sitting presidency. For Hillary Clinton, the problem […]

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In Iowa this weekend, when presidential candidate John Edwards appeared at a Democratic Party fundraising dinner, he didn’t just flatter the powerful Democrats there. He challenged them to reform the Democratic Party, to take it away from the corporate lobbyists who are attempting to twist the party into little more than an instrument of […]

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