Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s.

Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and small time musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views.

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) speaks at a News conference to release principles for global warming legislation. She says that this moment marks the start of legislative efforts to become energy efficient and create millions of green jobs which will make America a leader. (1:05)

Ezra Klein is an associate editor at The American Prospect . His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, The Columbia Journalism Review, and other outlets. He's been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. He cooks a mean kung pao, and likes to talk about health care policy.

Bartcop is the pseudonym of "Terry R. Coppage" (born September 1, 1953), a left-wing blogger and internet radio host from Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a liberal Democrat, and is known for his intense and often scathing commentary and fierce humor, criticizing George W. Bush and other Republicans, as well as other conservatives.

Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Whitford majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and then went on to receive a fine arts degree from The Juilliard School. Whitford is best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", which he began with the show's premiere in 1999.

Joshua Micah Marshall (born February 15, 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a journalist, blogger and writer. New York Times Magazine christened Marshall "a star" of the blogosphere as the "author of one of the most popular and most respected [blogging] sites." He is also a columnist for "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper. Marshall's work has been the subject of stories by the LA Times, NPR, New York Times Magazine, and Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.

Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a complete "volte-face". He emerged as a political observer and humorist with definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, …

Allard Kenneth Lowenstein, (January 16, 1929 - March 14, 1980), was a liberal Democratic politician, a one-term congressman representing the 5th District in Nassau County, New York from 1969 until 1971. His work on civil rights and the antiwar movement has been cited as an inspiration by public figures including Congressmen John Kerry, Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Barney Frank, California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, columnist William F. Buckley, Jr., …

Alan Colmes is leaving his position as co-host of "Hannity & Colmes" at the end of 2008. According to the FOX News release, he will stay on as a liberal commentator for FNC and as host of The Alan Colmes Show on FOX News Radio. He will also begin developing a weekend program for FNC. picked by ImNotBlue 1 month ago

Corey Robin is an American liberal political theorist, journalist and professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Despite being a progressive, he devoted his scholarly attention to the study of the contemporary forms of american conservatism and neoconservatism, as well as of the difficulties of both the liberals and the New Left in dealing with American supremacy, after the end of the Cold War.

Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Democratic politician. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, she was the youngest woman ever to serve in United States House of Representatives, having been elected at the age of thirty-one in 1972 from New York's 16th Congressional District, having defeated-in the Democratic primary-Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler, …

Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits (May 18, 1904 - March 7, 1986) was a liberal Republican New York politician originally allied with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, fellow U.S. Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating, and Mayor John V. Lindsay. Javits graduated from New York University and its law school in Manhattan. He was admitted to the bar in 1927. During World War II, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.

Bob Geiger is an American political blogger who is the author of the blog, Bobgeiger.com. He comments about national American politics from a liberal point of view. His blog had its millionth visitor on February 5, 2007.

William Emerson "Bill" Brock III (born November 23, 1930) is a former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee, having served from 1971 to 1977. He was the grandson of William Emerson Brock I, who was a Democratic U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1929 to 1931. Brock was a native of Chattanooga, where his family owned a well-known candy company. He is a 1949 graduate of McCallie School and a 1953 graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, …

Chuck Floyd, a 20-year United States Army veteran and active duty major, is a politician from the state of Maryland. In the 2004 U.S. Congressional election, he unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Representative Chris Van Hollen; Floyd ran as a Republican. Floyd lost the race for Maryland's Eighth Congressional District, taking only 25% of the vote. During the campaign, Floyd ran on a very conservative platform, …

Robin Leo Beard, Jr. (August 21, 1939 - June 16, 2007) was a former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee who served from 1973 to 1983. Beard was a graduate of Nashville's prestigious Montgomery Bell Academy, Vanderbilt University and a former lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. He later moved to Somerville, a suburb of Memphis. He was appointed Tennessee personnel commissioner in 1970, under Governor Winfield Dunn.

James Albert Smith (Jim) Leach, American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented the 2nd district of Iowa in the state's east central and southeast area (previously the 1st district from 1977–2003) from 1977 to 2007. Leach was born in Davenport, Iowa, and won the 1960 state wrestling championship at the 138-pound weight class for Davenport High School.

Mark Shields (born May 25, 1937 in Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American political pundit who appears frequently on CNN and PBS's "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" as a liberal commentator. Shields graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1959. He served in the United States Marine Corps before beginning his career in Washington, D.C., in 1964. In fact, he has had two distinct careers over the last 40 years. The first career for Shields was as a Washington insider.