Someone with Twitter should remind Mr. President Scarborough that the public option isn't a "left" or "liberal" position. It's a position supported by almost everyone. The left, in fact, mostly wants...
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Wingnuttery And The School Speech
A particularly frank moment with Brokaw and Friedman on Meet the Press: The school districts are treating this speech tomorrow as if it were the airing of a movie featuring nudity or profanity. And...
'What Are You Gonna Do?'
Here's the healthcare section of President Obama's speech to the AFL-CIO today: He point-blank calls the Republican arguments "lies" and asks, "I've got a questions for all of those folks... What are...
The Insurance Cartel Strikes Again
The best argument in the world for a public insurance option: In the past few days, 114,000 Michigan households have received bad-news letters from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, socking...
The New Baucus Plan
Max Baucus has released his new healthcare reform plan. Here's all you need to know: 1) It mostly sucks. No public option. Because he continues to obsess on bipartisanship. 2) Grassley and Enzi don't...
Here's A Trigger I Can Support
Let's have a primary trigger. If Ben Nelson votes against a robust public option, his vote should trigger a major netroots movement to recruit a primary challenger to kick his ass in 2012. These...
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Why Are We Obsessed With The Public Option?
Thought I'd summarize why support for the public option is so tenacious. Here are 10 reasons.1) Quick definition. The public option as proposed by the House bill and the HELP bill is a government-run...
Best. Healthcare. Ever.
The pre-Fox News Glenn Beck and Mrs. Beck underscore how Americans love their healthcare -- that is, until they actually need to use it. Adding... There was a point recently when healthcare reform...
Gibbs Says President Supports Public Option
As President Barack Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, no other issue is so highly charged. Obama's liberal supporters...
Stop Encouraging Them
Another liberal concession to the wingnut loud noises. Glenn Beck craps his cage about Van Jones, then Van Jones resigns. If I were in the administration, I would've promoted Van Jones just to see...
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Republicans Want To Kill Medicare
In fact, one of their rising stars has developed legislation along those lines: In April, 137 Republicans voted in support of a GOP alternative budget. It didn’t generate a lot of attention, but the...
Fruit Loops Aren't Smart
When the free market is allowed to carry on without government regulation, the market lies its ass off in order to turn a higher profit. Of course the people who should be most concerned about this...
Fox Network Refuses to Air Obama Speech
Boehlert confirms: Fox TV makes it official: It's refusing to air president Obama's address to a joint-session of Congress next week. Since Murdoch's media outlet has effectively transformed itself...
Equal Time for Wingnuts
John Boehner has managed to convince the networks to carry a Republican response to the president's speech Wednesday night. Equal time and all that. It's sort of like the government has demanded that...
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There's No Equivalency
The left was never this crazy during the Bush years. And, in fact, we were amost always right. 1) Liberals were right about Bush being incompetent. 2) Liberals were right about WMD. 3) Liberals were...
Here's A Healthcare Bill I Can Embrace
And it was written by a certain senator named Max Baucus. The plan included a national health care exchange, a public option, new consumer protections, universal coverage, an individual mandate, a...