Of course it will benefit the democrats. This bill is health insurance reform and all of us are getting ripped off in one way or another by health insurance companies. When the reform is passed and we can change insurance without penalty of pre-existing conditions or we can't be dropped because we get an expensive sickness we'll never be able to go back to the old rules. The idiots who think this is a government takeover of health care or socialized medicine will realize their health care...

Eric, there's a very simple way to protect US sugar production. It's called a tariff and I'll bet Peterson could engineer that pretty easily. All the countries of the world use them except the US. China particularly. Due to corporate greed, from Clinton to Obama, their is virtually no political interest in helping the US produce anything.

If Magnuson wants to resign he probably thinks it best to allow Pawlenty to appoint a judge to his liking. There's no guarantee a republican will be there next January to pick a candidate with acceptable conservative pedigree. You can be sure Pawlenty didn't appoint Magnuson because he was a liberal or an independent thinker. But as these things go Magnuson turned out to be an impartial judge and a vocal advocate for the state court system. My guess is he's still a conservative and wants...

Actually, Brian, the field agents in the CIA had much of the information and intelligence correct. It was the cherry picking of the intelligence by Bush, Cheney that accounted for the maassaged conclusions to support the presence of WMD's. It was critical for the Bush Administration to maintain the CIA got it wrong to provide cover for Cheney's obvious dishonest interpretations. Ironically, it wasn't ever necessary to revamp the CIA since it actually collected good data. The...