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Senator Jim BunningLast night, (March 2) after Senator Bunning backed down to frantic pressure from his own party, the Senate passed stopgap legislation to extend help benefits for the jobless and to keep federal highway dollars flowing. The vote was 78-19. Bunning's actions shamed a slim majority of GOP Senators into supporting the measure. Read more

Blair HouseThe event: The Health Care Showdown or Snowdown.

Time: Today,  10AM - 4PM ET.

The venue:  Blair House, across the street from the White House.

The champions: President Obama and the Democratic  Team.

The challengers & chumps: The Party of No-sayers.

Wild Card: Some dissention among the Dems,  fighting could break out between the reformers and the performers.

For six hours-- while oversees Terrorists are plotting America's demise, the POTUS will be tied up in a meeting with Repub No-sayers who are plotting his demise-- and what will come out of it? Event TV!  With wall-to-wall coverage. Not the size of audience Tiger Woods confession got, but respectable numbers -- may be. But definitely, the cable talking heads will get  something to talk about. Read more

Shortly after his election, Scott Brown, the new Massachusetts senator, who won the late Edward Kennedy' s seat in a special election, that many took as a referendum  on President Obama and the Democratic Party,  warned GOP leaders that he would vote his beliefs and not the party line?  America needs more Senators to vote that way. Earlier this evening, Senator Brown,  joined by five other Republicans, in a show of  bipartisanship, voted against a GOP attempt to filibuster a much needed jobs bills, a measure needed to spur job creation. The tally was 62-30.

Right wing nuts wasted no time to start spinning a wuzzy fit on the Internet, denouncing Senator Brown, whose vote helps Democrats advance the  $15 Billion Jobs Bill, pass a  GOP supported procedural hurdle. Read more

Alan SimpsonThe shameless Party of No, the GOP, loving the political milage its has gained among the rubes by blaming the huge deficits and the huge growth of the national debt on the Democrats and on President Obama, blocked the President's efforts for Congress to create a bipartisan deficit commission to deal with the problem of deficits. The GOP has no deficit of guile. From the GOP  point of view, the national deficit problem isn't going to be fixed before this November, or next, but if the Party of No had said "Yes" to a commission, it might have looked as if the President and the Democratic majority Congress were working on the issue, and the Party of No, wants that issue alive for this November races. Yes, Party before country, with the "No" crowd. Read more