Matt Yglesias nails the "double-crossing" Lieberman: The leverage that Lieberman and other “centrists” have obtained on this issue (and on climate change) stems from a demonstrated willingness to...
Lieberman Loves Jujyfruits
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Author - Bob Cesca
Very Serious Reporting
The screamer Politico headline: White House to Harry Reid: Cut deal with Joe Lieberman And nowhere in the piece is there any evidence of this. In fact... The White House denied that it was pressuring...
Harkin Revisits Nuclear Option
Years ago, Tom Harkin came up with a reasonable solution for killing the filibuster -- a gradual phase out. Ironically, Lieberman was on board with the plan. The plan he announced with Lieberman 14...
Not Good Enough
New poll: More than 80 percent of Democrats say they believe Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn) should be stripped of his powerful chairmanship in the Senate if he ends up supporting a Republican...
Manhattan Project
Here's a wild card for passing the healthcare reform bill. But to support it, we have to choose hypocrisy to get healthcare. The nuclear option. Change the rules so only 50 votes are needed to break...
The Gang of Dicks
Okay, so the Gang of Dicks, Presidents Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, won't support the Medicare Buy-In or the public option, and Nelson wants Stupak language in there, too. So unless I'm very...
Oh Boy I Can't Wait!
I hope it's as awesome as his tweets: Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie, NBC News' two White House Correspondents, are launching a 9AM show on MSNBC called "Daily Rundown," the Washington Post's Howard...
Morning Awesome
Neko Case - "This Tornado Loves You" Live on The Late Show with David Letterman
Intolerable
Prepare to lose your shit. Two key senators criticized the most recent healthcare compromise Sunday, saying the policies replacing the public option are still unacceptable. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I...
The Left Flank
Benen on the political impact of writers like Taibbi: Over the last several months, the right has come to believe that the president is a fascist/communist, intent on destroying the country, while at...
Breaking News!
Former Bush administration official and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie says that Tiger Woods should lay low for a while. Thanks so much, ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Very serious!
More Thoughts on The Taibbi Article
I've been thinking about this a lot and have drawn the following conclusions (so far). -- While it's not up to Taibbi or anyone else to present every single aspect of an issue within an article, it's...
Morning Awesome
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Ankle Injuries"
These Are The Stakes
Gingrich doesn't mince words: GINGRICH: If the left manages to drive through a bill which is opposed by 65 percent of the country on health care, our commitment should be simple — when we get a...
Internet? I'd Say Internet
Pranav Mistry talks about his SixthSense device. This is really amazing. I suspect the next step would be to link up your eyes as the input camera and the images would be projected directly into your...
Republican Fantasies and Expectations
The Republicans are beginning to inflate the 2010 midterms with 1994 expectations. This on top of their ongoing doomsday predictions courtesy of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. I understand the idea of...
Cap This
This is just a remarkably bad idea. Harry Reid wants to continue capping annual insurance benefits. Which is terrible news if you have cancer or something similar. Ezra Klein: "A loophole in the...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" Unrelated to the Flaming Lips movie.
Friday Night Fights
American Prospect's Tim Fernholz versus Matt Taibbi. Benen summarizes: Matt Taibbi trashes President Obama and his economic team. Tim Fernholz describes Taibbi's piece as "a factual mess," "a...
Wow, Michael Steele Is An Idiot
ThinkProgress documents Michael Steele earlier this year: STEELE: We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks...