This Coast Guard story is what happens when cable news networks report something without bothering to verify sources and facts. No shots fired and the Coast Guard underscored via radio that it was...
Author - Bob Cesca
They're Going Full Joe McCarthy
As we've been observing, Glenn Beck has already gone full Joe McCarthy -- weeding out "communists" all over the place. And now Drudge and Wing Nut Daily are going full Joe McCarthy. Knowing how such...
Tim Pawlenty Is Definitely Running
The litmus test for any viable Republican 2012 candidate will be their ability to embrace the crazy. Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has already begun to run away from his moderate position and into...
Morans
From a Joe Wilson rally: Please, Democrats, don't let these idiots win this thing.
I Don't Get It
I'm trying to figure out the rationale behind re-airing the uninterrupted TV news coverage of the attacks. Has anyone forgotten what it looked and sounded like?
Morning Awesome
Neil Young covering John Lennon's "Imagine" Rather than paying closer attention to these words, our leaders exploited a shell-shocked nation in order to engage in all varieties of terrible things.
More Supermajority Support for the Public Option
A clear supermajority of Americans support a public insurance option, according to most polls. And Nate Silver breaks down support by congressional district: -- The public option is estimated to have...
I'm Not Rooting For the Republican, But…
Harry Reid's odds continue to crumble. The Cook Political Report just changed the rating on the Nevada U.S. Senate race from Likely Democrat to Toss Up. Of course Reid will never in a gazillion years...
Poor Little Shimkus
Congressman Shimkus walked out on the president's address last night. Again, another perfect example of how childish and petty the Republicans are. We only need to go back to President The Dude and...
Why Co-Ops Are Mostly Ineffectual and Bad
I stumbled onto this item from the CNN website about co-ops. Of course we already more or less know that they simply won't be as effective as the public option in terms of insuring everyone and...
Chuck Todd Is Officially Channeling Halperin
Seriously, this post by Chuck Todd referring to the progressive "public option fetish" is something that just screams Halperin. As a matter of fact, I think Chuck's been leaping through the swamps of...
Real True Fact
You're paying for part of Congressman Joe Wilson's health insurance.
10 Random Things About The Speech Last Night
1) I absolutely agree with Yglesias on this point: — Obama’s pledge to refuse to sign a bill that increases the deficit by so much as “one dime” may be politically savvy, but it’s substantively...
Best. Healthcare. System. Ever.
WellPoint and their subsidiary Blue Cross continue to make a strong case for healthcare reform and a public insurance option: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota used premium payments to fund $15...
Pollgasm
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...
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...