Senator Joe Lieberman is an Independent. As romantically autonomous as that may sound, it also means he can count on support from neither the Democratic nor Republican Parties. It takes money to maintain a Senate seat. Why is this germane to health reform? Because a) money always is; and b) Mr. Lieberman by virtue of [...]

She said that the country should adopt the same individual mandate included in Massachusetts 2006 health care law which requires virtually everyone be insured.

Bob Mensch today wrapped up his career in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives and started his new job as the state Senator representing the nearly 240,000 residents in Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton counties living in the 24 th Senatorial District. Senator Mensch was sworn into office during a ceremony in the Senate Chamber. He replaces Robert Wonderling, who resigned from the Senate at the end of July to become the CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. A

From a newspaper in Nairobi-Kenya back in 2004: Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations. Which also means that the powers that be had been grooming him for dictator for quite some time.

Another of Edward Kennedy’s nephews, Stephen Smith, has endorsed U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano.