A positive side effect of Barack Obama’s shift on marriage equality, aside from revealing Andrew Sullivan’s daddy fixation, is that it has forced a good bit of the Democratic establishment to come off the fence and to support equality themselves. Since the announcement last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer [...]

The fallout from JPMorgan Chase’s “Fail Whale” trade (I’m trying to coin this phrase, so help me out, will you?) continues. But there’s been a thread in one section of the liberal blogosphere that has confounded me. For some reason, writers are trying to position this as a problem for Mitt Romney. Here’s a representative [...]

President Obama’s star-studded fundraiser at George Clooney’s house went off without a hitch. But before the event, about 50 activists with the Campaign for a Fair Settlement, mostly low-income victims of foreclosure or predatory activity by the financial sector, made their appeal to the President in a protest on the motorcade route to the residence, [...]

So earlier today I was wondering whether the LGBT-led donor boycott of the Obama campaign would continue after his shift on marriage equality. After all, his Administration still planned to reject an anti-discrimination executive order, and this, not the President’s position on marriage equality, was the nominal reason for the boycott. Greg Sargent tracked down [...]

A day after announcing himself evolved on marriage equality, President Obama heads to Hollywood for a fundraising dinner at George Clooney’s house that promises to raise a whopping $15 million. The campaign turned the event into a raffle, where a small donor could win “dinner with Barack and George,” and that raffle took in $9 [...]

I think that the President’s announcement yesterday on marriage equality is worthy of praise. Yet I also see John Cole’s point that, at the end of the day, the President merely expressed an opinion. Presidents expressing an opinion matters more than, say, me expressing one, but we can judge on actions and not words. And [...]

video platform video management video solutions video player ABC News has broadcast a preview of President Obama’s remarks from an interview with Robin Roberts today, and the President affirmed his support for marriage equality, saying that same-sex marriage should be legal. Here’s the full quote: OBAMA: I have to tell you that over the course [...]

It does indeed appear that Barack Obama will end years of speculation and endorse marriage equality today in an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts. The hastily scheduled interview, which was arranged yesterday afternoon, is happening at this hour. The White House cancelled their daily press briefing, suggesting that news will be made in this interview. [...]

As you know, North Carolina passed Amendment One, a constitutional amendment initiative that not only puts the existing ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution, but will also ban civil unions and domestic partnerships and could actually make things difficult for heterosexual couples that co-habitate. Despite – or perhaps because of – confusion about [...]

The argument made by the more cautious of the Democratic establishment is that the President cannot come out for marriage equality, even though nobody buys his current posture, because it would hurt him with a sliver of votes in November, enough to make a difference in some swing states. They usually bring up Virginia and [...]

While I was vacationing, a long-simmering deadline to avoid a doubling in federal student loan interest rates became a cause célébre among the Democrats and the White House. They actually got Republicans to flip on the issue; the House GOP budget called for allowing the doubling to occur, but suddenly, John Boehner unveiled a plan [...]