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The Week in Viral Videos
From a Sarah Palin media blitz to a Robert Pattinson tantrum, a controversial Gap ad to a cat's run-in with the fuzz, watch the buzziest viral videos of the week.
Robert Pattinson's complete and utter despair at being the star of the most popular vampire-abstinence franchise on earth is well-documented at thi...
Robert Byrd Lectures Senate as if in David Lynch Film
The halting, lofty delivery, the eerie silences, the fact that it's all in the name of admonishing Harry Reid not to speak in the second-person: who else could deliver a speech like this, except Ro...
The Greatest Filibusters
As Sen. Joe Lieberman threatens to filibuster the Senate health-care bill, The Daily Beast looks back on obstructionism's greatest hits. From presumed poisonings and Roquefort salad dressing recipes to public urination and the 15 hours devoted to saving a typewriter company, the strange and twisted history of the Senate filibuster.
Senate Stonewallers
As Joe Lieberman threatens-again-to filibuster health care, Benjamin Sarlin and Samuel P. Jacobs report on Capitol Hill's most ornery No Men. Plus, a gallery of the Senate's all-time biggest troublemakers.
The Republican, a leading Progressive of the era, spoke for 18 hours, setting a Senate record. He stood against a banking bill, which he found too ...
Obama's Blue Dog Problem
So much for Al Franken's 60th vote. A coalition of renegade Democrats stands ready to defy the president, writes Matthew Yglesias, and could damage his legislative agenda.


















