Author - Bob Cesca

Healthcare

Evidence of the Bastards

This AHIP report on the Finance Committee bill is all the evidence anyone should require to prove how criminally despicable the health insurance cartel truly is. The upshot of the report is that if...

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Rush Limbaugh

Twitchy Limbaugh

Have you ever noticed how twitchy Limbaugh is? I was just watching clips from the new NBC interview with the Republican leader, and for a guy who infamously mocked a Parkinson victim's tremors...

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Economy

Super Stupid

Digby: Mort Zuckerman was on McLaughlin this week and said that the stimulus was a big fat failure because there was so much pork and they had given way too much money to the states. He mentioned in...

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The Media

Drudge Rules Their World

George Will on This Week today: "The award set off a global cry of two words: 'For what?'" And here was Drudge's banner headline on Friday. Yet Will had the nerve to indict the Nobel committee's...

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Healthcare

Who Are We?

SiCKO is on cable right now. The sequence about the 9/11 workers and their struggles to get very basic healthcare for their respiratory diseases is arguably one of the most tragic illustrations of...

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Quote

Quote of the Day

"All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for...

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The Media

Compare and Contrast

By way of a contrast to the establishment media and supporter reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, here's a flashback to some media and supporter reactions to Bush landing on the USS...

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Democratic Party

National Treasure

Congressman Alan Grayson. This guy kicks all kinds of ass. I wonder if he thinks the president should decline the Nobel Prize -- you know, just because the Republicans are bitching about it.

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President Obama

Know Hope

Sullivan on the Nobel: We do know that we were facing a spiral of conflict that, unchecked, could have taken the world to the abyss. I see this prize as an endorsement of his extraordinary...

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Quote

Quote of the Week

"Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum -- when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes." —Assistant Secretary PJ Crowley, a spokesman for...

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