Flaming Lips - "Convinced of the Hex" Live on the Colbert Report I'm still trying to wrap my head around the new direction. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Author - Bob Cesca
The Beck-Luntz Amendments
The Wonk Room compiled some of the best and some of the most ridiculous amendments being proposed for the Baucus Plan. Here are some of the Republican amendments -- most of which are either torn from...
On The Radio
I'll be on the Jeff Farias show during the 7PM EDT hour. Talking about healthcare, of course. I think you can listen live here.
You Shall Not Pass!
I'm increasingly leaning towards agreeing with Booman on this: I still think that the Finance Committee will fail to report a bill and that if they do report one, the overall bill (once it is melded...
America is Mr. Short Term Memory
Steve Benen on a new Gallup poll showing that Americans think government is doing too much: The results are more than a little discouraging. In a time of widespread fires, a whole lot of Americans...
Morning Joe
The entire Morning Joe crew thought the president made a huge mistake by not appearing on Fox News Sunday. Yep. And last week the entire Morning Joe crew was questioning whether the president was...
Prediction
The Republicans don't have much of a chance to retake both the House and Senate in 2010. In fact, I don't think they'll retake either. However, if they do, they will absolutely impeach President...
Glenn Beck Bait
President Obama is a racist because he hates black people.
Freedomcare Is Still Alive
President Obama made it clear yesterday that the public option is still alive: Obama maintained that while the centerpiece of his healthcare reform effort, a public (or "government-run") option, is...
Morning Awesome
The Joy Formidable - "Whirring"
The President on Mandates
I was happy to hear that President Obama was dissatisfied with the mandate language in the Baucus Plan. OBAMA: I think that what they were referring to – and I haven't looked at the quotes. But I...
Race and the Sunday Shows
If you missed the Sunday shows today, you missed some of the most disingenuous performances from the resident conservatives who refused to admit that race is a factor in attacks against the president...
The Amendments
Here are some of the amendments being proposed in markup on the Baucus Plan: 187, "Establishment and administration of a public health insurance option as an exchange-qualified health benefits plan"...
Southern Pride
Research 2000 doesn't have very good news for the GOP: ...the Republican Party's favorability is very weak in Northeast (7% to 87%), and only marginally better in the Midwest (13% to 78%) and West...
Morning Awesome
Greg Johnson - "I Got Opinions" Animated by Watermark, based in New Zealand and Australia
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...