CNN snap poll via Greg Sargent: Striking numbers from the CNN snap poll, just released: Seventy seven percent reacted positively to the speech; the number who think Obama’s policies will move us in...
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Author - Bob Cesca
Return of the 'Liberal'
I can't emphasize enough how important the final eight or nine minutes of the president's address was last night. It was a perfectly constructed pitch for liberalism without specifically saying so...
Super Stupid
There's no doubt that Joe Wilson will become a wingnut celebrity. Benen: Bruce Bartlett noted this morning, "He's become the new Sarah Palin of the Republican Party, where one's popularity is in...
Morning Awesome
The Dead Weather - "Treat Me Like Your Mother" (Featuring Jack White and Alison Mosshart. This song kicks all kinds of ass.) h/t Chez
Worst Person
Contessa Brewer. For parroting serial liar Betsy McCaughey. Good gravy, the idiocy is blinding.
Messin' With Republicans
I don't recall George W. Bush poking the Democrats to their faces the way President Obama did to the Republicans tonight. He point blank looked them in the eye and said, "It's a lie," about the death...
Quote of the Day
"I swear man. Every time. Like, every single time. They pile on they write him off and then he does his thing and gives a great speech that hits the points just about right. They said he was throwing...
'You Lie!'
Congressman Joe Wilson will be all over cable news for the rest of the week. This brief moment of disrespect underscored how truly silly and pathetic the Republicans have become. Their behavior...
That Was Beautiful
The last third of the president's address was perhaps one of his top two or three finest moments in what can only be defined as one of the great joint session addresses by a chief executive. This...
Healthcare Speech Open Thread
Comment about the president's address to Congress and the subsequent brain melting commentary.
President Obama Speech Excerpts
There are more here, but this one jumped out as being particularly forceful: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it...
The Baucus Plan Gets Worse
According to Consumer Watchdog, the Baucus-WellPoint Plan would eventually allow insurance companies to set up quaintly-named "compacts" in states with the most lenient regulations -- a "race to the...
New Huffington Post Column
The Most Nightmarish Healthcare Reform Bill Ever Enjoy and Digg as per usual.
Afternoon Awesome
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The Baucus Plan Authored By Insurance Stooge
The pdf document circulated by Max Baucus containing his healthcare reform outline featured a rather obvious error. It still had the name of the author listed in the properties dialogue box. The...
White House vs. Max Baucus
Apparently Baucus delivered his Mafiacare Plan to K Street before he delivered it to the White House. Robert Gibbs wasn't happy about this: "[W]e’ve seen what we’ve read in the paper, but I do not...
'The Senior's Bill of Rights'
They just aired an RNC commercial on MSNBC featuring Michael Steele ballyhooing something called "The Senior's Bill of Rights." Of course the campaign is intended to scare old people. One of the...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers - "Your Daddy Don't Know" From the FUBAR: The Movie soundtrack Originally recorded by Toronto
The Option of Conscience Idea Is Spreading
For several weeks now, I've been beating a drum (here and here for example) about how the public option is the option of good conscience -- an escape hatch for those of us who don't want to be forced...
The Baucus Plan is a Nightmare
All we really need to know is that it doesn't have a public option and, according to the AP... Just as auto coverage is now mandatory, so would a requirement that all Americans get health insurance...