We've talked about this before, but the public option needs a catchy nickname in order to boost support and to make it sound generally more awesome. So here's a poll. Add your additional suggestions...
Author - Bob Cesca
Armed And Stupid
In the competition for the most idiotic teabagger sign, we have a winner. Via Oliver Willis: There's a lot of talk lately about (false) equivalencies between liberal opposition to the Bush...
Good News, Frustrating News
New Washington Post-ABC News poll on the public option: But it is the public option that has become the major point of contention, with support for the government creation of an insurance plan that...
Morning Awesome
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Can't Stop" Live from 2007 (Chili Peppers theme week!)
It's Not Just Television News, Of Course
The Washington Post seems to crap all over the left and elevate the right in order to appear "not liberal." Media Matters reports via Benen: For instance, in October 2002, when more than 100,000...
Fact Checking the Healthcare Lies
Simon Owens posted a terrific interview with Brooks Jackson, director of Factcheck.org. As you can probably guess, only four out of 48 of the rumors being circulated via wingnut email are actually...
Why Is NBC Protecting the Wingnuts?
Chez details how NBC sanitized a wingnut quote about Muslims taking over the country. Of course, here's precisely why: They're well aware of the accusations of a liberal bias -- very, very tired...
Zero Cred
Despite all of the chaos, it seems as though too many people have forgotten what happened for the eight years prior to the election of Barack Obama. Here's a bit of crazy wingnut pop culture that...
Going Full Joe McCarthy
I've wondered how long it would take before someone would literally invoke the name. And maybe exterminating the indians will come back. Why not try witch trials, too?
Wingnuts Lying About Attendance
Malkin blogged about how ABC News estimated 2 million people at the crazy rally yesterday. She made it up. ABC News did not estimate 2 million people. There were around 60,000 people at the rally...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Parallel Universe" Live at Slane Castle
More Random 9/12 Crazy People
This hand-written sign underscores the Wingnuts As Victims theory: How dare you make us act like crazy people! And next time we're bringing our guns -- and that will be your fault, too! And the...
Hail to the Chief
Today was the second presidential event in a week in which they played Hail to the Chief when the president entered. I could be wrong, but this is a new development in the Obama presidency. I don't...
No Wonder People Don't Know Anything
The networks spent more time covering that racist wingnut's obnoxious Tourettes outburst than they spent reporting on the president's address. It's no wonder why people are generally clueless about...
Random 9/12 Tea Bag Things
Some miscellaneous things from the batshit tea baggery in Washington. A few choice Oliver Willis tweets: --Speaker says future of con pop culture is Stephen Baldwin. --Woman has flier warning that...
What the Hell On A Stick Was That?!
I just flipped over to Fox News where they were airing what seemed like a 15 minute web video which was nothing but patriotic imagery and shots of Glenn Beck crying backed with a score that sounded...
Very Serious Question
Why is the House bothering to chastise that wingnut hooligan when the Senate and the White House are actually capitulating to his racist wingnuttery? Benen writes: Preventing people who are already...
Circulate This Handy Healthcare Chart
Health Care for America Now put together a very easy to understand chart detailing how health insurance will be divided up according to the House bill (HR 3200). It covers the health exchanges and...
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MST3K Saturday - "Last Clear Chance"
Nine Twelve
As Glenn Beck's pasty white zombies descend on Washington for the 9/12 Rally, I can't help but the recall these words: You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims’ families. It...