"You could imagine a lot of presidents more dogmatically liberal than Obama, but I wonder whether there are a lot of plausible hypotheticals in which they amass more liberal achievements than Obama...
Author - Bob Cesca
Very Serious
Set your DVRs! Stretch was just on Morning Joe to announce his guests for Meet the Press this weekend. Yep, he'll be talking about the economy and featuring the sage-like wisdom of Alan Greenspan...
Peace vs. Pacifism
I only caught this in passing, but as always Lawrence O'Donnell has a very unique way of looking at controversial issues. He mentioned last night on Countdown that the Nobel Peace Prize isn't the...
Morning Awesome
Jawbox - "Savory"
The Two Party System
Yglesias jotted down some of the reasons and justifications for America's tight two party system. Adding to his list... Two party systems tend to make for a more consistent government. While it might...
Irritant Talks About Irritant
Joe Lieberman: "I've told them that I can't support a trigger--no, actually, to be more explicit: If they say that it's unlikely to be [pulled] then it's unnecessary," Lieberman said. "It's an...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"And we talk about 2,074 pages, which seem like a lot, and it would be for a normal bill that you could debate in a limited period of time, which is what we’re being asked to do. But 2,074 pages...
Oh Come On!
Continuing Cole's rant, the Bush Doctrine is about preemptive war -- invading another country before we've actually been attacked. Nowhere in the president's address this morning did he say that he...
Cool
Brian Beutler reports: Today, Democrats will unveil the above poster board--taken from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's comm shop--on the Senate floor. That the two press releases were issued...
Quote of the Day
"To claim that a health care bill without a public option is anything other than a huge achievement for progressives is, frankly, bullshit." —Nate Silver
Very Serious
Benen observes: This morning, Gore appeared on MSNBC, where Andrea Mitchell read from Sarah Palin’s Facebook page to ask the former vice president questions about climate change. And then maybe Chuck...
Americans Want More Spending
The conservadems and the Washington media will ignore this. Americans want their government to create jobs through spending on public works, investments in alternative energy or skills training for...
Glenn Beck Gets Credit for Honesty
The Punch-Me Face admits that Medicare should be scrapped: And I also said why don’t you just abolish Medicare, because it’s so wildly corrupt and out of control. It’s so inefficient, it is so bad...
Nobel
The president's Nobel acceptance speech was fascinating. Of course it was representative of the Obama pragmatism. But what struck me about this address was that it underlined how this war president...
Morning Awesome
Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
New Huffington Post Column
Contradictory Republicans Still Flummoxed By Medicare Enjoy, Tweet and Digg often!
Kent Conrad Just Won't Quit
There are literally seven hospitals in all of North Dakota that accept Medicare. And because of those seven, Kent Conrad wants to monkey with the Medicare buy-in. Kent Conrad is pushing to decouple...
Shhh! Not so loud!
Congressman Weiner on the Medicare buy-in: "Extending this successful program to those between 55 and 64, a plan I proposed in July, would be the largest expansion of Medicare in 44 years and would...
Public Option By Another Name
Chris Bowers writes that the battle for the public option was fairly successful, despite the compromise: --4 million more people covered by Medicaid, which is a public option, than the July version...
Jon Stewart Nails Fox & Friends
Classic. Inspired by Media Matters' reporting here.