Right-Wing Terrorism Stoked by Conservative Leaders Again Tweet and Digg often! Adding... This just in: Law enforcement authorities are investigating the discovery of a cut propane gas line at the...
New Huffington Post Column
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Author - Bob Cesca
Returning to Healthcare Polling Normalcy
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how polls would begin to return to their pre-2009 levels once the bill was actually passed. The demagoguery and fear-mongering, along with the ugly bill-making...
One Small Step to Food Reform
Ezra Klein on a small provision in the healthcare reform bill: One of the bill's provisions is a menu labeling proposal for chain restaurants with more than 20 locations. The proposal requires chains...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "Long Division"
Right-Wing Terrorism
Wingnut blogger and teabagger Mike Vanderboegh has called for violence against Democratic offices across the nation. Tell me if this doesn't sound exactly like the justifications for various other...
Epic Win
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The Boner Trap
It begins. Crazy Republican amendments designed to trap Democrats are beginning to leak out. Briefly, if any amendment to the reconciliation bill passes on the Senate floor, the reconciliation bill...
Crazy Quote of the Day
Video edition: "You know what this is? They locked arms, because they wanted to compare themselves to the civil rights activists. How dare you! Look at these people [civil rights activists]. They...
Wingnuts Targeting Another Child
Wingnuts love to expose and attack children. They do it all the time. Malkin literally stalks them, Fox News Channel routinely "outs" their geographic location, and now the wingnut talkers are...
'This Is A Big Fucking Deal'
Damn right it is, Mr. Vice President. Adding... Greg Mitchell tweeted: So we had FDR's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal--now Obama's BF Deal.
Damn Bill Signed!
We've just taken our first giant leap towards affordable healthcare for all. WASHINGTON (AP) -- A broadly smiling President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul...
Signing the Bill
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Bring On the Crazy Talk
Now that healthcare reform is passed, the Republican crazy talk will amplify far beyond previous levels. There's the "repeal it" crowd which evidently wants to tell seniors that they'll have to go...
Morning Awesome
Fleet Foxes - "Your Protector" (Live)
A-hole Quote of the Day
"It's the same thing with preexisting conditions. No preexisting conditions? The liberals keep talking about automobile insurance companies. What happens to you if you have an automobile policy...
Helping to Pass the Damn Bill
I had no idea but Steve Benen was far more influential than you might have imagined in helping to pass healthcare reform. Who else would you consider to be a healthcare hero? I'll start. Other than...
Crushing Defeat
I never though I'd ever write this, but I agree with David Frum. Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. They're on the wrong side of...
Right-Wing Terrorism… Continued
I don't even know what to say about this.
Doof Quote of the Day
"It really reflects a lack of experience of President Obama's, which -- it was warned about during the campaign that Candidate Obama didn't have executive experience, he hasn't been an administrator...
Making History (And Poor Jimmy Carter)
Chait: Let me offer a ludicrously premature opinion: Barack Obama has sealed his reputation as a president of great historical import. We don't know what will follow in his presidency, and it's quite...