"Sometimes you've gotta look at the big picture -- and if there's anyone who can't seem to do that because they're too busy picking every little thing apart just to prove how intellectual, analytical...
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Perspective on 'It's a Thousand Pages! AAAH!'
Slate provides some much needed perspective on the healthcare bill page count: ...major spending bills frequently run more than 1,000. This year's stimulus bill was 1,100 pages. The climate bill that...
Bad News for Harry Reid
Polls are indicating that either one of the Republican challengers could defeat him in 2010. There are two ways to approach this news: 1) Harry Reid finds some spine and therefore some much needed...
Whaddaya Waitin' Fer?
TPM is reporting: After fruitlessly seeking a bipartisan compromise on health care reform for months, the White House seems to have finally realized that Republicans have no interest in compromising...
And 50 Is Just Around the Corner
The latest Glenn Beck lost advertiser tally: A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Walmart, CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to...
Baucus: 'I Want A Public Option, Too.'
There might be a glimmer of hope. U.S. Senator Max Baucus has finally broken his silence regarding his personal position on including a public option in health care reform legislation. Last Monday...
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"That's About the Size" - From Sesame Street h/t Mr. Walla
Sunday Night Thread in America
How's about an open thread? I'm back from an excellent weekend in Virginia. As usual, I forgot to bring something important (a book, The Unhealthy Truth, which I intended to lend to my brother), and...
Professional Liar Resigns
Betsy McCaughey resigned from her position at Cantel Medical Corp. following her ridiculous appearance on The Daily Show. Of course no one can be sure it was because of her clownish performance with...
Distant Early Warning
Via Yglesias, here's Greg Sargent's summary of what the White House and congressional leadership ought to be losing sleep over: Here are the net favorability ratings for Obama — i.e., the difference...
This Is How Republicans Win
They infiltrate the school system and inject partisan wingnuttery into the curriculum: Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative...
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Avatar - Official Teaser Trailer The alien planet is very Roger Dean-ish.
Put The Constitution Down…
...before you hurt your feeble brain, Ms. Foxx. Rep. Virginia Foxx appears to be continuing her quest to be as crazy as Michele Bachmann: "The Constitution doesn't grant a right to health care, and...
Draft Lawrence O'Donnell
There's an effort to get O'Donnell his own show on MSNBC. If you're on Twitter, join the group here: @draftodonnell. I'm not on Twitter and don't really have any plans to start, so if someone could...
Did The Last Eight Years Even Happen?
Atrios: People lied to take us into war. The media, by and large, believed or ignored those lies. Thousands of US troops have died along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. And just about everyone...
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MST3K Saturday - "The Undead" The first ten minutes (give or take)
The Rachel Maddow Decade
Via Matt Osborne: "Meet the Press" had its highest total viewer delivery since April this past Sunday, averaging 3,359,000 total viewers for David Gregory's most convincing victory in months. What...
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And then last year just about this time, you'll recall that the Republicans had just nominated their Vice Presidential candidate, and everybody was -- the media was obsessed with it, and cable was 24...
Jon Stewart vs. Betsy McCaughey
Here's part one. Part two after the jump. McCaughey is a liar of the highest order -- masking her deliberate attempts to mislead with the marketing guise of an infomercial host. Nothing she says in...
Circumventing the Finance Committee
Yesterday I posted an explanation as to why the Finance Committee and the Max Baucus Gang of Six have so much power in this healthcare reform process, and why the White House has to pay so much...