Dave Lefcourt

After what transpired in the Senate yesterday, getting Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson (D. Neb.), to agree to support that body's version of health care reform and prevent the expected filibuster by Republicans, it seems all too clear this legislative maneuver from a bygone era must finally be ended.

It is not in the Constitution and it blocks the will of the majority.

If there is anyone out there who still wonders why the problems this country faces have become all but insolvable, read the latest goings on in the Senate's debate over health care reform legislation.

Republicans as ever remain the consumate, staunch obstructionists, utilizing every tactic imaginable to delay any Democrat sponsored measure from being voted upon by the full Senate, in this insta

Did we not expect bold leadership that matched the rhetoric when we elected Barack Obama a little more than a year ago?

The morning headline in the New York Times read, " NATO Ministers Endorse Wider Afghan Effort".

There's a debate raging in the White House on what to do next in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama's eloquence was on full display yesterday in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, where he extolled the body to work for peace and cooperation.

As progressives we tend to ridicule the "wing nuts" and the "tea baggers" who showed up at the Mall last weekend. They're incoherent, part of the lunatic right wing fringe and obviously susceptible to the propaganda spewed out by the likes of Fox News' Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly as well as the rantings of Rush Limbaugh and those his ilk.

With health care dominating the political drama these past few months and with the economy brought back from the precipice of a depression, what has been happening on the large banking and financial industry scene has hardly registered on the radar.

Profits are up, bonuses are returning to 2007 levels, while the expected regulations on these behemoths' financial activities,( which precipitated