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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
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...
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...
Anonymous Sources and Apoplexy
There are clearly several "advisers" in the White House who, 1) leak all over the place, and 2) love to yank the left's chain. This has been happening throughout the year, especially regarding...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "No Sunlight" Black Cab Sessions
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...
Best Healthcare System Ever.
No insurance for "fat" babies: By the numbers, [four-month-old] Alex [Lange] is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. Insurers don't take babies above the 95th percentile...