"For more than a year, we've been working to meet the goals of reducing the growth of health-care costs, improving quality and efficiency and expanding coverage. There are a tremendous number of...
Author - Bob Cesca
Stay Classy, Republicans
The RNC Facebook page reaches out to anti-miscegenation voters.
Go Ahead and Opt Out. We Dare You.
At the risk of feeding the opposition, the opt-out is kind of a trick that favors the public option, with the purpose of giving conservadems some political cover next year and in 2012. The bottom...
The Public Option Confirmed in Senate Bill
Reid is on TV now. The public option with an opt-out clause will be in the final Senate bill. This is very, very good news -- especially considering where we were a month or two ago. Reid said there...
So You're The President…
Within the next hour or so, it looks like Harry Reid is going to announce a healthcare reform bill with a public insurance plan included. This is, of course, fantastic news. But going back to my...
The Lincoln-Nelson Filibuster
Blanche Lincoln joins Ben Nelson in filibustering healthcare reform. Greg Sargent reports: “Senator Lincoln has not committed her vote to anyone,” Niebaum emailed, adding that “she will have to see...
Denial and Reality
You know what denial is? Deliberately ignoring reality in order to back up a kneejerk conclusion based upon unsourced anonymous quotes and uneducated hunches. That's denial, sir. Fact: Healthcare...
The Ben Nelson Filibuster
Ben Nelson hasn't committed to voting for cloture against Republican obstruction yet. "I've made no promise. I can't decide about the procedural vote until I see the underlying bill. It would be, I...
Shocker!
Following yesterday's red alert: The White House issued a statement Sunday evening reaffirming its commitment to a public option for insurance coverage and called reports that the president and...
Morning Awesome
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - "Cool Yourself"
Defending Fox News and Punching Hippies
I've been trying to figure out why the establishment press is so anxious to defend Fox News Channel, considering how Fox News Channel is dedicated to bludgeoning them as being "liberal" and "in the...
Anonymous Bait
Regarding this, I'm wondering how many times we're going to be baited with anonymous quotes about the death of the public option. How many times has it happened? Over the last several months it's...
The Hypocrites
Congressman Weiner posted a list of the 55 members of Congress who are on Medicare but oppose healthcare reform and the public option. The 'Get Your Government Hands Off My Medicare' list after the...
Morning Awesome
Thought we'd wrap up Stop-motion Week with a rare classic... Stop-motion sequence from The Flintstones on the Rocks I had no idea this existed, but I love the look of it. Way better than any CG.
Prime Time Thread
On your mark! Get set! We're riding on the internet! Here's an open thread for your Saturday evening. And to get the ball rolling, here's a bit of internet historical goodness. Not safe for work ...
End of Tunnel, Meet Light.
There are still about a thousand things that could go all haywire at this point, but the public option is beginning to feel very real: Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a...
The Perils of Weak Leadership
If Harry Reid were a strong leader, breaking Republican filibusters with his 60 vote caucus would be fairly simple. But that's just not the case. So instead, strong policy hangs in the balance ...
On the Record
Finally some confirmation from a named source that the whole "trigger" rumor from yesterday was false. "The report is false. The White House continues to work with the Senate on the merging of the...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "Gamera vs. Barugon" The first 10 minutes, give or take.
Bad News for Barack Obama
New CNN Poll: The Republican Party's favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll. Thirty-six percent of people questioned in a...