Al Franken was presiding over a sleepy session of the Senate yesterday afternoon and took what AP calls "the unusual step" of denying unanimous consent to allow Joe Lieberman to finish his remarks.Franken was presiding over the Senate Thursday afternoon

In regards the current internecine Democratic fight over the health care compromise, Megan McArdle argues that many people are simply naive about as to how the negotiation process operates:This bill is, at this point, hideously unpopular. I'm pretty sure you've

Yesterday, I wrote that there were signs that progressives were rebelling against the health care compromise reached in the Senate. Since then, things have really heated up.Bernie Sanders, the Socialist senator from Vermont, showed up on Fox News to announce