I didn't think there would be, but it turns out that the plan the White House intends to post online will be the final compromise between the Senate and the House bills. Ezra Klein confirms: I spoke...
Author - Bob Cesca
Republican Bitching All Around
The Republicans will be attending the big summit: Republicans, demanding to have a say in the summit’s format and warning for days they have no interest in attending a "public relations" exercise...
Holy Crap! How Did She Do That?
From the current front page of The Huffington Post: The Granny did what now? Here's the actual back story.
Retirements
I received a spam email from Dick Morris informing me that Senate Democrats are "dropping like flies." For the record, six Senate Republicans are retiring. And now with Bayh, only five Senate...
Bayh is Full of Shit
He's claiming that "excessive partisanship" is driving him out of the Senate. Seriously. One of the examples he cited was the failure of the debt commission -- which failed due to a Republican...
Evan Bayh To Retire
This was a little unexpected: Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this year, a decision that hands Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in the middle of the country. "After all these...
Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press
Rachel is outstanding. By the way, accepting the money (or tax cut) is very different from praising it, publicly embracing it, bragging about it, and posing with a giant novelty check at a ribbon...
Morning Joe and Obama Follow-Through
Today on Morning Joe, there was an extended conversation about how President Obama "can give great speeches, but he can't follow through." This is a ridiculous myth. The president, in fact, has the...
Morning Awesome
Beastie Boys featuring The Roots - "So What'cha Want" Live on Jimmy Fallon
The War on the Establishment Clause
Via Lance Armstrong (really) who referred to this as "seriously scary," the New York Times published an extended piece this week about the Christian conservative war on the separation of church and...
Teabagger Fantasies Barely Mask the Truth
All joking aside, the tea party movement comes down to two things: 1) ignorance, which thinly masks its 2) racism. Watching Chase Whiteside's latest video, along with the following poll, seals the...
Morning Awesome
Nine Inch Nails - "Survivalism"
Teabaggers and Birthers Love Sarah
Chase Whiteside brings us another brilliant look at the far-right.
The Original Sarah Palin
Dan Quayle emerged from exile to give us this nugget of stupid about reconciliation: "So, therefore, you have 51 votes in the House and 51 votes in the Senate. That is not what our Founding Fathers...
Moving the Goal Posts
Incidentally, I really hate sports metaphors in politics. But that headline is the best description possible for the following statement from John Boehner about the healthcare summit. Reacting to the...
The White House Healthcare Reform Proposal
What do you think this might look like? From a statement released Friday from the White House to Speaker Pelosi: Since this meeting will be most productive if information is widely available before...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Eegah!"
The Healthcare Summit Guest List
The official attendees for the big meeting on February 25: Senate: Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), majority leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Republican leader Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)...
Lawrence O'Donnell on Today's Morning Joe
This was an unbelievable display. I'm not talking about O'Donnell, but former Rummy speechwriter Mark Thiessen playing the "Who us?" card regarding 9/11. The Republicans are pathological regarding...
Eff Politico
Linkins reports: As a part of its ongoing effort to retain exclusive brand licensing rights to a word that’s been a part of the English language since the early seventeenth century, Politico has...