Oh here’s some big news: Barack Obama has officially declared defeat in Iraq! War is over and our troops are headed home in shame! Stay with us as our president explains how he is going to pull soldiers out of the Middle East, a little bit at a time, until at some point in the future we have mere tens of thousands of troops overseas instead of hundreds of thousands. MORE »

It is 1945 all over again. A major historical War for the White House has ended forever, and the liberals won. The liberals do not usually win these things because they are scared of fighting, so who knows how this happened. Whatever. They can “govern” till the cows come home. The real story now is the new post-election Cold War that’s rapidly developing between McCain aides, Palin aides, conservative bloggers, conservative teevee hosts, conservative columnists… basically any GOP operative with a half-decent Rolodex and a certain moral flexibility. They are all shitting on each other. This is the greatest Cold War we’ve ever had the pleasure of covering. Let’s try to make some sense of it. MORE »

The world’s least favorite capital city got another kick in the mouth this afternoon as the Senate killed the latest D.C. Vote Bill. Republicans managed to keep it from getting the 60 votes necessary to “begin action” on the thing, so once again the District won’t have a voting member in Congress. This bill has apparently gone further than any D.C. Vote bill in three decades, but the White House and the GOP leadership are steadfastly against letting black people have representation in the federal government. Republicans praised the defeat as “a step in the right direction” and announced new legislation that would remove congressional representation from other urban areas, which frequently are home to blacks and other minorities.

D.C. Vote Dies In Senate [Washington Post]