ELVIS UPDATE! ELVIS UPDATE! This is particularly grotesque given the following from WHY ME NOT PRESIDENT? : At about the same time as the pregnancy story broke, another bullcrap story entered the...
Author - Bob Cesca
Palin-Taitz '12
This isn't a shocker. Sarah Palin is a birther. “I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue,” Palin said. “I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to...
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The Most Serene Republic - "Heavens To Purgatory" Directed by Ben Steiger Levine I will always envy Canada for both their healthcare and indie supergroups.
Crazy Quote of the Day
"What’s really great is if you’re really sick anywhere in the world, this is the best place to be sick, it just costs too much." —Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) Yep, we only bankrupt and destroy the lives...
Super Majority, Stupid Senate
New poll on the public option: WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Most Americans would like to see a "public option" in health insurance reform but doubt anything Congress does will lower costs or improve...
Change We Can Believe In
Good news: The Obama administration on Wednesday approved the first human embryonic stem cells for experiments by federally funded scientists under a new policy designed to dramatically expand...
Sarah Palin: Just A Regular Person
The sideshow freak is grabbing whatever moolah she can get her hands on: The rules for the crowd were laid out by a spokesman for Palin's book tour, who said no personal photos of the 2008 Republican...
Cut the Crap
Predictably, I got my first "enlist" comment in response to my Huffington Post column yesterday. Time to put your money where your mouth is Bob: enlist. Of course this is a reference to the anti-war...
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Broken Social Scene - "Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)" Light blogging today. I'll be on a train to and from New York.
Triggered What?
The Senate Democrats are seriously considering Tom Carper's ridiculous "Plan B" for the public option. Of course it's not a public option at all. It's something called "triggered co-ops." I wonder if...
New Huffington Post Column
Obama's Unavoidable Cure for the Afghanistan Cancer Enjoy and Digg often!
Healthcare Equals House on a Beach
Here's the basic disconnect with the Republicans and healthcare reform. And it was William Shatner who successfully managed to worm it out of Rush Limbaugh. That's right. Healthcare is a commodity...
Colbert Nails Glenn Beck on Afghanistan
I get a little barfy thinking about how 2 million Glenn Beck viewers are going around today trying to make a case for both firing generals and listening to them at the same time.
Exclusive! Meet the Press is Ridiculous!
Via Steve Benen, the promo for this weekend's Meet the Press: Also This Sunday: Exclusive! Senator John McCain (R-AZ) Sen. John McCain, the Republican Presidential Nominee in 2008, and Ranking Member...
The Afghanistan Chore
I hope this isn't a stupid metaphor, but Af-Pak is not unlike cancer. No one wants it, but I don't know how we can avoid dealing with it, or face more serious consequences. I don't want an increase...
Worst Person
Chris Matthews for this: West Point is the president's enemy? He's the commander-in-chief of the militar -- oh screw it. Matthews clearly yanked this out of his ass in order to have something to say...
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Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP
Well, Okay…
I'd rather us scale down to just enough troops to rebuild the country and keep an eye on Pakistan's nukes. Then again, the candidate we voted for and elected in 2008 never once pledged to withdraw...
60 Needs an Asterisk
Oh great. Ben Nelson's abortion amendment is almost exactly like the Stupak language. When I read stories like this, I can't help but to return to a pet fascination/frustration of mine. I can't help...
Unemployment and Approval Poll Numbers
Yglesias brings us this chart: So when you hear Mark Halperin, Politico or Joe Scarborough concern-trolling about a short-term glitch and how it's ruining the Obama presidency, keep the above chart...