I'd love to learn more about how the health insurance cartel managed to be excluded from anti-trust laws. Nevertheless, Senators Schumer and Leahy are making a serious attempt to strip the cartel of...
Attacking the Cartel Where It Hurts
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Author - Bob Cesca
The Bottom Line on Olympia Snowe
The Senate, Harry Reid and the White House will eventually have to embrace the fact that it's either Olympia Snowe or the House of Representatives. They can't have both. If they get Snowe, there...
The Wyden Amendment Lives
If you recall, the Wyden "free choice" amendment was shitcanned in the Finance Committee -- Baucus didn't allow it to come up for a vote. But it looks like Baucus and the White House might've cut a...
Scary Headline of the Day
Schumer: Fate Of The Public Option Is In Reid's Hands Have a nice day!
Wingnuts: The Carrot Top of Politics
The far-right loves props. Tea bags, boiling frogs, and now rock salt. Wingnut stereotype Erick Erickson is asking his readers to send five-pound bags of rock salt to Olympia Snowe's office in Maine...
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Urge Overkill - "Sister Havana"
Brace Yourself for Super Stupid
These final stages of the healthcare reform process have the potential to make us totally lose our shpadoinkle. I mean, we're talking many new levels of congressional and media stupid. Stupid about...
Fall Fundraising Drive – Day Two
It's day two of our quarterly fundraising effort to keep this blog running smoothly and fully stocked with bandwidth and other techie gadgets I'll never fully understand. Thanks so much to all of you...
Six Degrees of Glenn Beck Is A Mental Patient
Either Glenn Beck is insane, or he's mocking and exploiting the mentally ill for ratings. There are literally millions of people who watch this and think it's rational discourse.
RNC Website Fail
The Republicans relaunched their new and super-buggy website today and it's hilariously awful. It's nearly impossible to click anywhere beyond the front page. There's actually not much of anything...
Finance Bill Passes
And healthcare reform makes it out of Finance. 14-9 with President Snowe voting for the bill. Yes, the bill sucks. But yes, this is still very historic. The next step will be to combine it with the...
Whose Base Now?
I always chuckle a little whenever I hear establishment media people refer to the liberal blogosphere as "Obama's base." BooMan explains why this isn't really accurate, and how yesterday's outrage...
MSNBC: The Place for Lobbyists
On your "liberal network," Chris Matthews just had an AHIP health insurance lobbyist on Morning Meeting for an entire segment to push the bogus, corrupt insurance lobby report. Not only that, but...
Corruption Finds A Way
The White House is countering the health insurance lobby (AHIP) with a report showing very different results than the cartel's ridiculous conclusions. But the specific reforms and their consequences...
Morning Awesome
Alice in Chains - "A Looking in View" Directed by Stephen Schuster
Heckuva Job, Harwood
John Harwood walked back his anonymous quote. Benen reports: John Harwood said his blind quote/paraphrase yesterday was not in reference to the "LGBT community or the marchers." Adam Serwer added...
Profanity Gate
This story from Politico is arguably the most ridiculous story of the year. And there are a lot of ridiculous stories. It details the Obama administration's apparent "profanity" problem. You know, I...
Fall Fundraiser – Day One
It's that time of year again. Our quarterly fundraiser to keep the blog lively and invariably sweet-smelling. This time around, the first 20 donations get a free DVD copy of my no-budget indie movie...
Better To Never Have Loved At All
On MSNBC today: SHUSTER: If you start with a public option and you leave it up to states to decide to opt-out, wouldn’t that be a little bit more aggressive than Olympia Snowe’s proposal? BILL...
Eff You, Insurance Lobby
Following up on this AHIP report, the health insurance cartel is basically saying that if the Finance bill is passed (again, as-is which is unlikely), premiums will rise by 111 percent. They're...