Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Taste the Pain" The Chili Peppers tribute week continues with another of my favorite tracks.
Author - Bob Cesca
Shameless Cheaters
I caught this headline on Drudge: Mark Levin Book Hits One Million in Sales; Never Reviewed by NYT, WASHINGTON POST... You know why it hit one million in sales? Because think tanks and wealthy...
Ten Lessons for Tea Baggers
This list by Jon Perr is really great: Here, then, are 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers: 1. President Obama Cut Your Taxes 2. The Stimulus is Working 3. First Ronald Reagan Tripled the National Debt... 4. ...
Healthcare Hero: Wendell Potter
Sure, he was once a villain with CIGNA, but now he's really redeeming himself by fighting hard for reform and the public option. Here's Potter's opening statement: “A public option must be created to...
Health Insurance Misogyny
Ryan Grim reports: It turns out that in eight states, plus the District of Columbia, getting beaten up by your spouse is a pre-existing condition. In 2006, Congress tried to stop this practice, but...
Rockefeller Will Vote Against Baucus Plan
Senator Rockefeller, a member of the Finance Committee, has pledged to vote against the Baucus Plan because it lacks a public insurance option. "There is no way in its present form that I will vote...
The Next Ad Boycott Begins Now
Rush Limbaugh predictably grapples his flapping arms around Drudge's racist headline: "[I]n Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering." See, with a Limbaugh ad...
The 'Good' Hodgkins
As more details get crapped out of the Finance Committee, the already awful bill looks even worse. Ezra Klein explains: The point of health-care insurance is to protect against the financial burden...
Eff You, Drudge
The current Drudge front page: Several things about this. 1) Drudge is clearly race-baiting. 2) There's no evidence at this point that the fight was racially motivated. 3) The bus is pretty evenly...
Pollgasm
New CNN poll results: Asked about approval of the president's work on specific issues, 54% approve of his handling of the economy (up five points since August); 58% approve of his handling of foreign...
What The Crap Is Wrong With You People?!
You people = the centrist Democrats. As we get closer to the release of the awful Baucus Plan, the details are becoming increasingly clear. The price tag is estimated at just under $880 billion over...
Why Do Doctors Hate America?
It turns out that a super-majority of doctors support the public option: 62.9 percent of physicians nationwide support proposals to expand health care coverage that include both public and private...
Morning Awesome
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Knock Me Down" Continuing our Chili Peppers tribute week.
Max Blumenthal Digs Into the 9/12 Crowd
Wingnut fish in a gigantic wingnut barrel. "Dipers." I nearly snarfed my beverage on that one.
Doof Quote of the Day
"For some in my caucus, when they talk about a public option they’re talking about another entitlement program, and we can’t afford that right now as a nation." —Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas...
When You Go Full Joe McCarthy…
...you had better police your own shit. Source
It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
I've been thinking about the array of polls from today and the conventional wisdom coming from the cable news people. Bear with me on this. I've written before that if a pollster asks a typical...
More Republican Death Panels
Why do Republicans hate senior citizens? Since his son died a few years back and with his nearest relatives in New Mexico, 86-year-old Phil Duran is mostly, but not completely, alone. The Modesto man...
Perspective on the Economy
For the last week or so, MSNBC has been comparing various financial numbers from prior to the Lehman collapse with various current financial numbers. Of course the whole thing is very misleading. So...
The Public Option Explained in 70 Seconds
This was all over the place last week, but I just realized I didn't post it here. Since there's been some confusion about the public option, I thought it might be good a idea to turn to Mr. Reich for...