Chris Dodd drew a line in the sand last week, pledging to filibuster any legislation that grants immunity to telephone companies that broke the law by spying on Americans. Now Dodd's leadership has drawn two more Democrats into the fight: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both say they will back...

Chris Dodd broke into the first tier of candidates in an influential survey of Democratic activists on Monday, leaping to second place in the monthly "straw poll" conducted by DailyKos, the top liberal blog. John Edwards led the pack, as he has all year, but Dodd's bounce to 21 percent...

As required by Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution, Members of Congress are bound to support the Constitution. We take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will...

I am at the San Mateo County Expo Center, where they are conducting a Presidential Straw Poll today.

This is a large room and it is packed. It looks lime at least a thousand people have turned out. (Later - just heard someone say 1600.)

Along one wall...

Nancy Pelosi did it again. One more apology on a stack of endless apologies from Democrats. Please stop being so damn weak. It's embarrassing to look at.

This time it was a rebuke of Pete Stark (D-CA) for saying the president is getting kids killed for his own amusement...

Welcome to the sixth installment of the weekly suggestions for Democrats who are likely to appear on this weekend's chat shows. Previous installments can be seen at the new Talking Points archive on my site.

Before we get to the talking points themselves, attention must be paid to the...

Don't get me wrong. I like Barack Obama. If the primary were held today, he'd probably get my vote. But the honeymoon is over in Obamaland and it can't be written off with canned responses about how unreliable early poll numbers are.

If you look around the liberal...

I don't write many meta posts about the netroots and the blogosphere, mainly because I find Internet triumphalism a wee bit self-absorbed. But I just finished writing the last chapter of my upcoming book The Uprising, which includes an analysis of the netroots, and I think lately those in the...

Unless you happen to live in Virginia or New York, right now Hillary Clinton is doing more than both of your U.S. Senators to prevent the Bush Administration from attacking Iran.

How does that make you feel?

On October 1, Senator Clinton took a step that no other Senator...

(This is the fourth installment of an occasional update on where the labor movement is ending up in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination)

At this point, this is really not a surprise: the Service Employees International Union has chosen not to endorse, at the national level,...

Remarks at an event last night at Northwestern University, sponsored by Americans for Informed Democracy.

Since September 11, the policy of the Bush Administration in Pakistan has been that General Pervez Musharraf is our guy, and there is no alternative. The conventional thinking in Washington has been that if...

In looking over the Democratic candidates for president, some say there are no differences in our policy toward the Iraq war. I disagree.

In the Hanover debate on September 26th, moderator Tim Russert asked, "Will you pledge...

Ever since John Kennedy won a Pulitzer for Profiles in Courage, presidential candidates have written books. They range from vacuous policy tomes to memoirs meant to inspire to a book by John Edwards about people's houses. I didn't quite get Edwards' point but his central theme -- there's no place...