Single party rule means boredom in Congress.

After Senate passed their version health-care reform on Christmas Eve, the prevailing wisdom was that Congressional Democrats would quickly resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions so that the President could sign the bill and use his State of the Union address to pivot to a new job-focused legislative agenda. Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday in the Massachusetts Senate election now means the era of the Democratic Party’s senatorial “supermajority” is over and brings the fate of American healthcare reform into question.
An obvious solution would be for …

House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.
The ethics committee is one of the most secretive …

Several days ago, a CIA-released document revealed that at least 19 Democrats were routinely briefed about the torture techniques used by the Bush administration and when they would be used since as early as 2002.
Bearing the ‘This-Can’t-Be True’ mindset, liberals immediately responded by digging up a letter that suggested that CIA cannot promise the accuracy of the documents. The key passage of the letter states:
“This information, however, is drawn from the past files of the CIA and represents MFRs completed at the time and notes that summarized the best …