They're doing it again: “I can only support a bill if the Cadillac plans are taxed at the level they are in the Senate [bill,]” said Landrieu. “It’s not because I’m thrilled about taxing those plans...
Professor Krugman found an excellent little online tool for those of you who are buying insurance on your own. If you intend to switch over to the Exchanges when they're operational, you can...
Them Crooked Vultures - "New Fang" (Live) Via
Apparently a Nigerian man connected to al-Qaeda tried to blow up an airplane as it landed in Detroit. The White House is calling it an "attempted act of terrorism." More here. There wasn't an...
Continuing on with my obligatory best-of lists. Still on movies, and my favorite movie category is... Porn! Kidding. POW! No seriously. It's porn. Then comedies. 10. Tropic Thunder Late entry, but a...
SNL - It's A Wonderful Life Alternate Ending Have a festive day filled with Harry Reid's brand of Wonderment.
Via John Cole, the history of Christmas at the White House: There's also a president-by-president timeline of White House Christmas traditions. Really thorough and fun.
My Lionel O-gauge Pennsylvania Flyer train under our tree. (Also posted this on Twitter earlier.) Open thread for your Christmas Eve wonderment!
Nate Silver headline: Health Insurance Stocks Decline on News of Senate Passage of Reform Bill; Have Underperformed Market Since Start of Week Why do cartel shareholders hate this bill? Rather -- the...
“This is what I meant a year ago when I said the next year will determine whether Barack Obama will be an Uncle Tom groveling before the demands of the corporations.” —Ralph Nader Uncle Tom? Really...
Obviously there's been a lot of yelling about how progressives should "get tough" with the White House and congressional Democrats. For what it's worth, we always need to be tough with our elected...
The first Christmas Eve Senate vote since 1895. I'm remarking on the cable coverage over at Twitter. UPDATE: The Senate has passed their healthcare reform bill. 60-39. Robert Byrd: "Mr. President...
The Flaming Lips - "Christmas at the Zoo"
All I have to say about this is, "WHAH-HUH?"
Oh yeah! Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) favorable ratings have taken almost a 10-point drop in the past two weeks, a new poll found. 31 percent of people told a CNN poll conducted Dec. 16-20 that...
So I went ahead and followed some of the cable news people on Twitter. I believe this was a mistake. In the last 12 hours, I learned that Mika Scarborough attended the White House holiday shindig and...
As someone who's been writing in support of the public option for the better part of a year, I was initially weirded out by the president's declaration that he didn't campaign on the public option. I...
Via Rude Pundit, Max Baucus lets fly on the Republicans: Not only is he on fire (for a change), but he sounds a little sloshed, no?
Paul Krugman compares the Senate bill with single-payer and concludes that the Senate bill is a clunky simulation of single-payer. In a good way. In short, he calculates that in a single-payer...
My annual White House tree post, now updated with the official Obama Tree portrait.Tree portraits from previous presidents (and snark) after the jump...
