Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture  —  WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts …

Karl Rove sets the record straight — sort of  —  As a White House reporter during the Bush presidency, I often worried that I wasn't getting the whole story.  Now, Karl Rove has finally given it to me.  —  His new book, “Courage and Consequence,” promises to “pull back the curtain …

If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution  —  Here's some abject nonsense from Judd Gregg as he tries to foster the misperception that the de facto supermajority created by routine filibustering is part of the Framer's vision of the constitution:

Does DPS leader's writing send wrong message?  —  The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation's lowest-achieving big city district.  —  He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence.

Who's A Terrorist Now?  —  One of the key arguments of Barack Obama's Presidential campaign was that he would improve America's image around the world.  This idea was based on the false assumption that anti-Americanism was due to factors peculiar to the Bush administration …

Dem-turned-GOP cites healthcare debate as reason for switch in party's address  —  Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) on Saturday stressed he joined the ranks of the Republicans last December because the Democratic Party had “lost its way” in the healthcare debate.

‘STUPAK HAPPENS TO BE WRONG’.... Arguably the single biggest threat to health care reform is Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and his dozen Democratic allies, who are threatening to kill the legislation over indirect, circuitous funding of abortion.  —  Efforts to work with Stupak are ongoing …

Craig Crawford leaves MSNBC...  Longtime MSNBC analyst Craig Crawford has left the network...according to Craig Crawford...  And Crawford saves the real venom, and dirt, for the thread comments...  Crawford was a mainstay on MSNBC for a very long time and also one of the more level headed analysts they had.

Weekly Address: What Health Reform Will Deliver - This Year  —  In this week's address, President Obama describes how American families will have more control over their health care this year, after health reform passes.  —  Click here to see the video.  —  Here are a few more points …

White House reconsiders holding terror trials in civilian court  —  Suspected Sept. 11 plotters may be tried before military tribunals after all, administration officials say.  Holding the trials in civilian court is deemed ‘politically untenable.’  —  Reporting from Washington …

Real Talk on Health Care and Abortion  —  What Theda Skocpol said: … The majority of pro-life members of congress at least claim to believe that the overall health care bill is bad.  But the Stupak bloc of legislators who were willing to vote for a version of the bill …

Rep. Eric Massa to resign  —  Democratic Rep. Eric Massa will resign from Congress on Monday, only days after reports first surfaced that the freshman New York lawmaker was under investigation by the House ethics committee for allegedly sexually harassing a male staffer.