"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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Morning Awesome
Miike Snow - "Silvia" That Chez Pazienza has outstanding taste in music.
Quote of the Day
“No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their...
Another Question Time!
Tomorrow morning, the president will be doing a televised Q&A with the Senate Democratic caucus. Staffers from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office and White House aides tell the Huffington...
Final Word on Impeachment For Now
No one really cared much for my impeachment speculation the other day. I still believe the Republicans will make a go of it. They won't be very successful, but it's more about the journey than the...
Jon Stewart Recaps Question Time
More of this, if you please, Mr. President.