Steve Benen: Remember: nothing becomes law in this Congress unless Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman approve. Literally, nothing. That's not an encouraging legislative dynamic, and it's a huge impediment...
Author - Bob Cesca
Super Stupid Sarah
Sarah Palin via Twitter: "Arrogant&Naive2say man overpwers nature," I've only been on Twitter for a couple of days, so I have no idea how one might get a message to this idiot, but if you can...
The Tears of a Sleestak
Mitch McConnell: "If they were proud of this bill they wouldn't be doing it this way. They wouldn't be jamming it through in the middle of the night on the last weekend before Christmas." This from a...
Morning Awesome
UP starring Clint Eastwood.
Wet Hot Gigantic Super Earth
Missed this news item the other day, too. Astronomers discovered a gigantic planet with an atmosphere and loaded with water. The only problem is it's nearly 400° F on the surface, and it's 40 light...
What A Difference Five Years Makes
I wrote a Twitter thing about this earlier, but here's Ezra Klein's take: Imagine telling a Democrat in the days after the 2004 election that the 2006 election would end Republican control of...
The Sanders Amendment
This is really great stuff. Bernie Sanders has successfully added $10 billion for primary care. Some details: -Forgives medical school debt for doctors who choose primary care, increasing the number...
Quote of the Day
“This is the beginning of health reform, not the end of health reform.” —Tom Harkin today
Change We Can Believe In
Paul Krugman relates the ideological triumph of healthcare reform: ...it represents a rejection of the view that the solution for all problems is to cut some taxes and remove some regulations. In...
Doof Quote of the Day
"I truly bleieve this reform will stand the test of time ... [and prove to be] one of the major reforms of the 20th century." —Ben Nelson 20th Century?
McCain Caught Lying for Lieberman
Via last night's Rachel Maddow Show, here's McCain defending Lieberman after being blocked by Senator Franken. SENATOR McCAIN: I’ve been around here 20-some years. First time I’ve ever seen a member...
Senate Reaches Agreement with Nelson
It looks like the Senate has 60 votes without going to Olympia Snowe. I have no idea what the substance of the abortion language is, but you can read it here. UPDATE: Nelson will rear his bulbous...
Fighting Words
President Obama is pissed. From his weekly address: Simply put, the protections currently included in both the health insurance reform bill passed by the House and the version currently on the Senate...
Vacation Flexible
In all the hubbub about healthcare reform, I completely missed the story about Sarah Palin vacationing in Hawaii and wearing a McCain-Palin visor with the logo scribbled out using a Sharpie. And then...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" Continued from last week...
I Dare You Not to Laugh
This is such an awful, awful story, but the news anchor couldn't stop laughing. But you know what? I started laughing at the same time she did. Test your laughing threshold: I feel terrible for...
Best Political Movies of the Decade
Off the top of my head: 1. Why We Fight Arguably the greatest political documentary of all time. 2. Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore's masterpiece. This movie helped me get through the second Bush term...
Copenhagen
There's a non-legally binding agreement out of Copenhager including, among other things, the Annex I Parties agreeing to reduce carbon emissions by "at least" 80 percent by 2050. The problem is that...
Eff You, Ron Brownstein
Greg Sargent rips into Ron Brownstein's ridiculous assumptions about kill-billers: Brownstein writes that Dean and the “digital left” are able to “casually dismiss” the bill because “they operate in...
The President's Copenhagen Address
Just like Bush. Obviously.