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Al Franken has become the voice of the progressive left in the Senate. Yup, Stuart Smiley himself. Franken this week led the Democrat charge against the Obama Administration.  Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats.  Sources said Franken was the most outspoken [...]

In 2006, progressives joined forces to try to oust Senator Joe Lieberman from his Senate seat in Connecticut.  It was liberal purity in action; Lieberman believed that Iraq was worth fighting, and that simply was not allowable in the Democratic Party. After an ugly nomination process that Lieberman lost, he came back and won as [...]

As this health care debate rolls on, I cannot believe that anyone that has risen to the high level of Senate Majority Leader could be so incompetent.  Don’t get me wrong; Sen. Harry Reid is certainly incompetence.  But his level of incompetence is rising to new levels of greatness. However, this week, after Reid made [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/19/stimulus.watchdogs/index.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032001820.html?hpid=topnews Barack Obama may not be able to make the economy grow, but he is having no trouble making the deficit explode. The Congressional Budget Office projects the U.S deficit for 2009 to be $1,900,000,000,000 (or $1.9 Trillion).  That is several hundred billion more than Mr. Obama’s own worst case scneario, and $700 billion [...]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123612545277023901.html Are there actually a few fiscally responsible Democrats left?  Apparently so. John McCain led an attempt to shear of approximately $8 billion of the Omnibus spending bill this week, to no avail.  Mr. Obama also declared that he would do nothing to stop the earmarks, although he promised he would.  The Democrat Whip in [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/26/budget/index.html This is my kind of spending.  I just hope I can get a piece of it before they come after me for the bill. Barack Obama started to lay out details of his all time record $3.55 Trillion budget plan for the coming year.  $1.75 Trillion will be deficit spending, the largest deficit in [...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/team-of-rubins_b_145879.html Robert Kuttner has a piece on Huffington, basically showing the hints of worry from liberals and progressive regarding Mr. Obama’s cabinet picks. I for one have been relatively positive about the picks.  Geithner is a inpsirational choice.  The others are atleast competent. It appears that the left is not so sure.  They hope that [...]