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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Walk away, Mr. President.
Okay, so enough is enough. The White House has to walk away from the PhRMA deal. Apparently, the White House is working with PhRMA to kill Byron Dorgan's drug reimportation amendment. The amendment...
Public Option Inventor Likes the Medicare Buy-in
Jacob Hacker, the Yale political science professor who devised the idea of the public option, weighs in on the Senate compromise: The way I would describe it is, in sort of Dickensian terms, is it’s...
Excuses, Excuses
Sarah Palin on debating Al Gore: INGRAHAM:Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue? PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because...
I Have Given a Name to Our Pain
And it is "Lieberman." Steve Benen: Oh, and Lieberman, who has a long record of supporting Medicare buy-in plans, is now "increasingly troubled" by a Medicare buy-in plan. Do you ever get the feeling...