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Alex Leo over at the Huffington Post wants to know what the fcuk Glenn Beck is trying to say with this chalkboard: As near as I can tell, he's suggesting that everyone is the anti-Christ and "bad...
The Republicans and the Debt Ceiling
All of the Republicans voted against raising the debt ceiling. Of course from 1995-2007 the Republican-controlled Congress voted eight times to raise the debt ceiling. But not this time. Because they...
Chez Pazienza vs. Andrew Breitbart
Fight! Adding... Breitbart is a douche.
Go F-ck Yourself, Glenn Beck
I know, I know. He's an escaped mental patient who somehow weaseled his way into having a television show and I probably shouldn't be letting his psychopathic rants get to me. But this one hit close...
Doof Quote of the Day
"Well it’s been interesting looking at the Senate and the US Senate is doing. They’re really mirroring what we did a couple of years ago through Governor Romney’s leadership." Scott Brown admitting...
Bring on the Nuclear Option
The filibuster, in the modern sense, has to go. Replace it with a real filibuster in which senators who want to obstruct have to piss their pants and talk for days on end. Meanwhile, the Republicans...
Scary Lying Luntz Commercial
From the far-right Committee for Truth in Politics: That thing is packed from wall-to-wall with lies. I've already seen it on TV here in Pennsylvania. According to Dave Weigel, it's also running in...
Quote of the Week
"You look at an issue right now like health care. So many of us campaigned on the idea that we were going to change this health care system. So many of us looked people in the eye who had been denied...
Lies and Lying Luntz
Circling back to the new Luntz memo, this is the most enormous lie in the batch: Congress is preparing to enact legislation to pass a law with $4 trillion more for more bailouts. Should people who...
The Utter Weakness of Bayh and Lincoln
I was glad to see the president (politely) urging Senators Bayh and Lincoln to stop kneejerking to their right -- the culprits behind our current predicament -- just because it's easy. "If the price...
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East Hundred - "Slow Burning Crimes"
Another Reason to Pass a Public Option
Congress should pass a public option via reconciliation for many reasons. This is just the latest one. A wingnut healthcare front group is publishing a "Public Option RIP" ad in the Washington Post...
Bill Passing Fever! Catch it! Part 4
Nick Baumann alerts us to this: ...Reid saying that passing the fixes through reconciliation before the House votes on the Senate bill is a "strong possibility." That's not that different from what...
Bill Passing Fever! Catch it! Part 3
Sounds like momentum is building for passing the Senate bill with reconciliation fixes. Sargent reports: White House aides have privately told Dem Congressional aides that the White House supports...
Projecting Bush onto Obama
No, it's not one of those posts about "just like Bush" and all that. Here's Rush Limbaugh on Fox News today: You've probably heard this before -- mainly from the wingnutosphere, but also from Karl...
The FDA Admits Hormone Blocker Is Unsafe
The FDA released its report on BPA and it's a mixed bag: The good news is that the FDA now admits that BPA—the endocrine-disrupting, heart disease-causing ingredient in plastic food packaging and can...
Bill Passing Fever! Catch it! Continued…
The president yesterday in New Hampshire: "Suddenly everybody says, 'Oh no, it's over,' " Mr. Obama said in mocking tones [in reference to health care reform]. "Well, no, it's not over. We just have...
Bad Framing
Greg Sargent this morning presents the DSCC's rebuttal to the Frank Luntz memo. The framing is predictably clunky. The Senate campaign committee says the Republicans... “will do everything in their...
Bill Passing Fever! Catch it!
Good news from Senator Harkin: Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said a reconciliation package is under development by staff — apparently despite the opposition of...