Dailykos has featured an analysis that is title "Cato: GOP Survival Depends On Blocking Health Care Reform."

The verdict is in on Independent Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. He will keep his chairmanship but lose his position on another panel.

The NY Times is now breaking the story that Dan Rather's dismissal from CBS news was done in large response to Republican party pressure on the network.

Now here's some real fraudulent voting activity, for those looking for it. And it's clear, from the flier itself, that it's from GOP supporters. I mean, the Dems certainly wouldn't be telling their own followers to vote on the wrong day, now would they?

Barack Obama canceled most of his Thursday and Friday appointments as he prepared to fly to Hawaii to visit his gravely ill grandmother. At the same time the reaction from some can only be described as hateful, disgusting and unfeeling (and that's being nice).

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." The head of a voter registration group hired by the California Republican Party was arrested over the weekend for allegedly lying about his address in the state in order to appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California.

Apparently, the local GOP affiliates haven't gotten the message: negative ads turn off voters. Racist propaganda sure isn't going to do any better.

The rise of Sarah Palin and her clutch of wild-living family are the perfect mirror of the collapse in morals that is rapidly destroying families. Far from being a traditional conservative, she is a radical sybaritic secessionist which seems to be the prevailing culture of a great swath of the 'wrong side of the railroad tracks' American landscape. This is where much of the battle for hearts and minds is now being waged as we saw in the Democratic Party's nightmare primary.

"This is the biggest political gamble in American political History," said MSNBC's Pat Buchannan. Once a runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, Governor Sarah Palin would be the first woman Vice President of John McCain, if elected.

Al Jazeera host Avi Lewis discusses the bizarre story of Allen West – a retired Army lieutenant and Congressional candidate who recently accused Al Jazeera of trying to kidnap him after a booker from the network asked him to appear on the show. “I don’t know if it was a kidnapping attempt,” West told The New York Daily News. “But I am not going to entrust Al Jazeera with my life. I said, ‘Cancel the interview!’”

Under attack from Republicans who have challenged his credential to become Commander-in-Chief, Democratic Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama provided fresh fodder to his critics after he made a gaffe about his great uncle helping to liberate Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads in Iowa, and Senator John Edwards overtakes Senator Barack Obama after the last debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, last Thursday, in Johnston, Iowa.