Politics

So far today on Congress Matters:

• CA Berkeley WV examines "Things Left Undone" -- part of that closer look at the unfinished business of appropriations that I've been hinting at for a while
• Quick! Without looking it up, can you think of who the other Dems are in Baucus' so-called "Gang of...

Why not come by Congress Matters, where Casual Wednesday, CA Berkeley WV and I will be watching too?

There'll be plenty of front page liveblogging action here at Daily Kos, emceed, so to speak, by our own mcjoan. (That's not what the "mc" is for, but it works. It works.)

But if...

No doubt you've all been following the stories about the fight for health care being staged in the shifting political sands. But what else has been going on in the background, or down in the weeds?

• Fixing it at the ballot box reminds us of the continuing fight to reinstate the rule of...

Fresh this morning:

• Casual Wednesday on Filling Sen. Kennedy's seat
• On Steven Pearlstein's incredibly schmucky Kennedy paraphrasing, "The dream shall never die. Take the deal."

Still-delicious leftovers:

• Warner backs into a health care position
• What happens to Kennedy's office, under the rules?
• What else is Baucus' foot-dragging costing...

Perhaps you're busily preparing to make the pilgrimage to Pittsburgh for Netroots Nation.

Perhaps it's just a slow August day.

But if you're looking for something new to get excited about, why not come on over to Congress Matters and offer some congratulations to CA Berkeley WV for her debut front page...

If you're not watching the House debate on the Department of Defense Appropriations bill, you're missing out on a chance to see anti-earmark crusader Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ-06), who has made several (nine?) attempts to force a vote on opening an ethics investigation into the PMA lobbying scandal (and by extension, into Rep. Jack Murtha...

Today on the House floor: H.R. 3326, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010.

What's in it? What's not? Who's got earmarks? Who's got amendments? (And what's up with Rep. Jeff Flake's 553 of them, and what are they going to do about it?)

Congress Matters.