"If this wasn't so sad, it would be amazing. Here you have the most important legislation for millions of Americans' health and welfare, and apparently Senator Lieberman backs away from his own...
Author - Bob Cesca
It's Not Just the Bill that Will Die
Kevin Drum: If healthcare reform dies this year, it dies for a good long time. Say what you will about the Democratic leadership, but Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, and Steny...
Morning Awesome
Rush - "Marathon" From A Show of Hands Thought I'd run another clip from A Show of Hands. This is one of many Rush songs that doesn't sound like any other band -- ever. It's that excellent mixture of...
Messin' with Lieberman
BooMan has a great idea for dealing with Joe Lieberman. Maybe we should find out how Lieberman likes to get to work and just go park our cars in the middle of those streets each morning. You know...
I Totally Caved Under Pressure
I'm on Twitter now. @bobcesca_go Questions... How do I get links to my blog posts to automatically post on my Twitter feed? Do I seriously have to use the word "tweets?"
Channeling the Outrage
The more I've been thinking about the events of the last 36 hours, the more I'm convinced that instead of focusing on killing the bill, it might be a better idea to spend our energy on improving it...
Loose Lips
Lieberman only opposed the Medicare buy-in after he heard Congressman Weiner praising it. And he said he was particularly troubled by the overly enthusiastic reaction to the proposal by some...
'Sloganeering'
Josh Marshall on "kill the bill" and "burn it down": ...there seems to be a clear correlation between people who have followed health care policy closely for years (and know it inside and out) and...
Here's an Idea
Tim F. at Balloon Juice has an interesting solution: I say pass the Liebermanized bill and let the President sign it. Then use reconciliation to get the rest. As he explains, all of the insurance...
Or… Kill the Bill
And watch as a family of four earning $54,000 a year will pay up to $10,000 more in annual healthcare expenses than they would with the passage of the Senate bill. Nate Silver provides this chart:...
The Big Difference
Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein both touched on this, but I wanted to add my two cents here. Admittedly, there were several hours last night during which I contemplated withdrawing my support for this...
Fructose Damages Metabolism
High fructose corn syrup is slowly killing us. Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and...
Morning Awesome
Rush - "Manhattan Project" Live from A Show of Hands
Lieberman Wins
Flawless victory. Senate Democrats emerged from a special caucus meeting Monday night determined to pass a health-care bill by Christmas -- but without the Medicare buy-in plan that liberals had...
'Get it done?'
Ryan Grim reports that Rahm Emanuel personally visited Reid's office and urged him to cut a deal with Lieberman. "Get it done," he reportedly said. If accurate, Emanuel is wasting his time. Cut a...
Joe Lieberman? Meet Joe Lieberman.
Via Ezra Klein, here's Joe Lieberman praising the virtues of allowing people to buy into Medicare and Medicaid. Yep. This isn't ancient history either. This video is from THREE MONTHS AGO!
Lieberman Loves Jujyfruits
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...
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...