"I swear man. Every time. Like, every single time. They pile on they write him off and then he does his thing and gives a great speech that hits the points just about right. They said he was throwing...
Author - Bob Cesca
'You Lie!'
Congressman Joe Wilson will be all over cable news for the rest of the week. This brief moment of disrespect underscored how truly silly and pathetic the Republicans have become. Their behavior...
That Was Beautiful
The last third of the president's address was perhaps one of his top two or three finest moments in what can only be defined as one of the great joint session addresses by a chief executive. This...
Healthcare Speech Open Thread
Comment about the president's address to Congress and the subsequent brain melting commentary.
President Obama Speech Excerpts
There are more here, but this one jumped out as being particularly forceful: I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it...
The Baucus Plan Gets Worse
According to Consumer Watchdog, the Baucus-WellPoint Plan would eventually allow insurance companies to set up quaintly-named "compacts" in states with the most lenient regulations -- a "race to the...
New Huffington Post Column
The Most Nightmarish Healthcare Reform Bill Ever Enjoy and Digg as per usual.
Afternoon Awesome
The Baucus Plan Authored By Insurance Stooge
The pdf document circulated by Max Baucus containing his healthcare reform outline featured a rather obvious error. It still had the name of the author listed in the properties dialogue box. The...
White House vs. Max Baucus
Apparently Baucus delivered his Mafiacare Plan to K Street before he delivered it to the White House. Robert Gibbs wasn't happy about this: "[W]e’ve seen what we’ve read in the paper, but I do not...
'The Senior's Bill of Rights'
They just aired an RNC commercial on MSNBC featuring Michael Steele ballyhooing something called "The Senior's Bill of Rights." Of course the campaign is intended to scare old people. One of the...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers - "Your Daddy Don't Know" From the FUBAR: The Movie soundtrack Originally recorded by Toronto
The Option of Conscience Idea Is Spreading
For several weeks now, I've been beating a drum (here and here for example) about how the public option is the option of good conscience -- an escape hatch for those of us who don't want to be forced...
The Baucus Plan is a Nightmare
All we really need to know is that it doesn't have a public option and, according to the AP... Just as auto coverage is now mandatory, so would a requirement that all Americans get health insurance...
Worst Persons
MSNBC. For apparently shit-canning Carlos Watson's show. Maybe MSNBC urged him to use a stupid office management-speak metaphor as the theme of his show and he refused. Something like: "I'm Also...
A Third of Americans Are Self-Defeating Morons
Yeah okay, that headline is a little harsh. But looking at this Gallup poll showing slightly more Americans are opposed to healthcare reform than support it, I just couldn't help myself. I find it...
Jonathan Alter is Wrong
Alter via Twitter: A PO is a good idea, but left has lost perspective. The rest of bill--universal cov,ending discrim. based on preexisting cond. --more impt. I've written this many times before but...
Education and Wingnut Doofery
I was watching CNN prior to the president's speech and they were interviewing an old guy who said he objected to the address because the country was "becoming more and more communistic." Yeah, that...
Greatest Healthcare In The World
Just a reminder: the private health insurance companies continue to cancel policies: "We do not rescind a policyholder's coverage because someone on the policy gets sick," said Peggy Hinz, a...
'Indoctrination'
What else do you call this? From August, 2004: Several Democrats who wanted to hear Vice President Dick Cheney speak in New Mexico on July 31st were required to recite an unusual pledge of allegiance...