Jane Hamsher on Kucinich's announcement that he will vote for healthcare reform: A thousand people have donated over $16,000 to Dennis since yesterday to thank him for standing up for what he...
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Augustana - "Hotel Roosevelt"
Healthcare Polls Have Always Been Sketchy
Gloomy polls on healthcare are mostly near-term jitters and the result of demagoguery. Greg Sargent rewinds to the 1960s: Dem leadership staff is highlighting a series of numbers from 1962 on...
Worst Persons
The (ironically titled) Fox News Channel "Brain Room." They're framing the Sanders amendment -- the nationwide community healthcare centers -- as some sort of weird earmark or kickback just for...
Demon Pass
The Republicans are predictably spastic about the House passing both the Senate bill and the sidecar in one vote -- the "deem and pass" procedure. To recap, the procedure basically allows the Senate...
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Stars - "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
It's Not Dead
No offense to some of my colleagues in the blogotubes, but I wish people would stop writing about how the public option is dead. I kind of know what they mean -- the public option as it pertains to...
The Runaway Prius
I've been known to defend Toyota, so take this for what it's worth, but when I heard about this out of control Prius story my hunch was that it could possibly be a hoax or scam or operator error. It...
Very Serious Question
With healthcare reform passage just days away, how will Joe Lieberman ruin everything?
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Obamacare!
Tom Toles via Ezra: Yep. When working class families are receiving $10,000 subsidies on their decent insurance plans, Republicans will hug the stuffing out of Obamacare. One way or another, the...
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Dan Black - "Symphonies" (It's 6 a.m. on the west coast, so I'm not late! By the way, sporadic blogging today. Busy with meetings.)
Bill Passing Fever! Catch it!
They're going to pass this thing. "We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," Robert Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday." "Whoever sits here at this time next week, I...
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Foo Fighters - "Learn to Fly" I'll be away from the tubes until this evening. For the next half-day, my body will be wedged into an airplane seat. By the way, charging extra for exit row seating is...
Theodore C. Olbermann, 1929-2010
My condolences to Keith and his family.
What's the Matter with the Teabaggers?
Thomas Frank, author of What's The Matter With Kansas, writes about the contradictions of the tea party movement: Not too long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the...
Public Option Betrayal or Political Necessity?
On the surface, Greenwald makes a good point about the public option. But when you dig deeper into the political realities of the current situation, it rings a little hollow. Several caveats for you...
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MST3K Saturday - "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank"
Ten Days
The House is a matter of days away from passing the Senate bill. After her conference, her spokesman Nadeam Elshami added "If we have to be here next weekend or the week after we will." That echoes...
Creeping Wingnuttia in Texas
The far-right has successfully infiltrated history curriculum in Texas. – To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s...
The Zombie Option
It's alive! It's dead! It's alive again! It's dead again. This time, I think it's dead. For now. “We had it; we wanted it,” Pelosi said. “It’s not in reconciliation.” She added: “We’re talking about...