In fact, one of their rising stars has developed legislation along those lines: In April, 137 Republicans voted in support of a GOP alternative budget. It didn’t generate a lot of attention, but the...
Republicans Want To Kill Medicare
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Author - Bob Cesca
Fruit Loops Aren't Smart
When the free market is allowed to carry on without government regulation, the market lies its ass off in order to turn a higher profit. Of course the people who should be most concerned about this...
Fox Network Refuses to Air Obama Speech
Boehlert confirms: Fox TV makes it official: It's refusing to air president Obama's address to a joint-session of Congress next week. Since Murdoch's media outlet has effectively transformed itself...
Equal Time for Wingnuts
John Boehner has managed to convince the networks to carry a Republican response to the president's speech Wednesday night. Equal time and all that. It's sort of like the government has demanded that...
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MST3K Saturday - "What To Do on a Date"
There's No Equivalency
The left was never this crazy during the Bush years. And, in fact, we were amost always right. 1) Liberals were right about Bush being incompetent. 2) Liberals were right about WMD. 3) Liberals were...
Here's A Healthcare Bill I Can Embrace
And it was written by a certain senator named Max Baucus. The plan included a national health care exchange, a public option, new consumer protections, universal coverage, an individual mandate, a...
Go John Harwood
The impact of this is huge considering that Harwood routinely holds his fire.
Bipartisanship Is Creating More Polarization
As near as I can tell, the only crazy wingnut topic-of-the-week that hasn't forced a concession from one group or another is the Birther thing. I assume this was only because the Obama people already...
Quote of the Week
"CNBC's Maria Bartiromo needs to stick do doing what she does best: standing around on the floor of the Stock Exchange looking like a cross between Sophia Loren and that thing that co-piloted the...
Prediction
Take this for what it's worth. Over the next several months, Speaker Pelosi's approval ratings will probably go up. I don't know by how much, but it can't hurt that she's strongly and precisely...
The Crazy Is Winning
Via a reader, the Exeter School District here in Berks County sent this out to parents: Yesterday afternoon we learned that President Obama would like to give a speech to students on Tuesday...
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U2 - "Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car" Live from Sydney and featuring Mr. Macphisto Wrapping up our Zooropa tribute week
Chris Matthews Is Utterly Clueless on Healthcare
I just overheard Matthews conflating "single-payer" with a "nationalized healthcare system." They're not the same, Chris! Read this carefully, sir. Single-payer is merely a health insurance program...
Health Insurance Denial Rates
A California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee study concluded: Claims denial rates by leading California insurers, first six months of 2009: • PacifiCare -- 39.6 percent •...
It's My Fault, Too
I have to genuflect before Chris Bowers' snarky rant about single-payer advocacy. Nicely put, sir. Like Bowers, my position remains that the best strategy to achieve single-payer Medicare-style...
Maddow Continues to Kick Very Serious Ass
TV By The Numbers reports: MSNBC Beats CNN in Primetime in August Among Viewers 25-54 “The Rachel Maddow Show” out-rated CNN’s “Larry King Live” among A25-54 in August (304,000 vs. 294,000). “TRMS”...
Quote of the Day
"Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don't think so." —Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) ballyhooing a reconciliation vote on drilling in ANWR in 2005
Willful Ignorance on the Public Option
The corporate media, and in this case George Stephanopoulos, are just being willfully ignorant about the public option. Stephanopoulos asks: 1 – What is “death with dignity” for the public option? Is...
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U2 - "Numb" Continuing our week-long tribute to the Zooropa album