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Douche Quote of the Week
“I haven’t seen Keith Olbermann for at least a year and a half. And I’ve never seen Rachel Maddow. I have four children and a wife. I don’t sit around watching cable TV. I don’t understand why...
This Will Make You Laugh
The Onion has an exclusive op-ed by Max Baucus. The headline alone is priceless.
The Biggest Baucus Gift to Insurers
There's a lot of terrible things to be said about the Baucus Plan. But this item described by RJ Eskow is unforgivable. Baucus ought to be shouted out of the Senate for this one. Older Americans...
The Republican Baucus Plan
The Wonk Room details the long list of Republican items in the Baucus Plan. There are many. It's really a Republican plan with a few concessions to centrist Democrats. And yet somehow there's no...
Filling the Kennedy Seat
Ezra Klein makes an outstanding point about filling the Kennedy seat with an interim appointment. In short: if there's any guilt about revising the law for political expedience, bear in mind that the...
The Wingnut Pledge Against Socialism
This pledge, outlining the "socialized" services the wingnuts shouldn't be supporting, is really great. Of course it only makes a good point for those of us with a brain. The Republicans have long...
Real Sports
I'm watching the latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumble and have two observations. 1) The newspaper segment seems to be implying that you can't have investigative journalism and reporting...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "The Home Economics Story" Part One. Part Two after the jump...
This Is Totally Creeping Me Out
I've been meaning to post about this for a while now. My Dad and Kent Conrad are dopplegangers. I mean, it's uncanny. That's really my Dad on the left. I wish I could find a shot of him wearing a tie...
'You Lie!' Good, 'News Report' Bad
MSNBC and Fox News reporters heckled and interrupted on live TV at the ridiculous "Values Voters Summit." Wingnuts truly confound reason. Just the other day they were singing the praises of a back...
Mini-Fundraiser Thread – Day Two of Two
It's the second and final day of our mini-fundraiser to help feed the internets and thus keeping this blog cranking along smoothly. So if you like what you're reading here -- be it the wall-to-wall...
Glenn Beck's Most Disgusting Trick Yet
So, yes, Glenn Beck is crazy and a race-baiter and all the rest of it. But now he's deliberately editing audio of the president -- I mean, wholesale reconstruction of the president's thoughts about...
The Best Argument for Education Reform
This tea bagger interview piece easily rivals Max Blumenthal. Watch for the segment about the czars. You can almost see the steam shooting from their ears. Source UPDATE: The filmmaker apparently...
Healthcare Hero: Jay Rockefeller
This interview with Senator Rockefeller by Ezra Klein is a must read. Some important excerpts: ...46 percent of the American people have health insurance from fairly large companies that self-insure...
Quote of the Day
"It is abnormal for any industry to throw back upon the community the human wreckage due to its wear and tear, and the hazzards of sickness, accident, invalidism, involuntary unemployment, and old...
Sunday Shows Gate
Remember a few years ago when the corporate media cheerlead Bush's invasion of Iraq? Today, the same corporate media is criticizing President Obama for... appearing on the Sunday shows this weekend...
Kids in the Hall Predicted Glenn Beck
Via dday: The speech patterns, the crazy paranoia -- exactly like Beck, years before Beck. Proof of how self-satirical, cliche and predictable Glenn Beck is.
It's Only Going To Get Worse
While the Baucus Plan is a shit sandwich, it's only going to get worse when an array of Republican amendments are attached and Democratic amendments fail in committee. In other words, if you think...
9/11 Every Month
A Harvard study concludes: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get...