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Author - Bob Cesca
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Don't Believe the Scorpion
Chuck Grassley is asking the Democrats to give his scorpion ass a ride across the river. Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the powerful Republican who has spent weeks working on a healthcare reform...
That NBC Poll on the Public Option
Here's a shocker. NBC changed the wording of their public option poll question and yet they continue to compare today's numbers with the results from a very different question. You've probably also...
For Snowe and Enzi Maybe?
Gibbs tosses cold water on shutting out the Republicans: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration remains committed to drawing Republican support for the bill, particularly in...
They're The Mafia
John Cole echoes Congressman Weiner: Hell, I can't, for the life of me, figure out what value the insurance companies add at all. Seems like all they do is skim money off the top, add layers of...
Conference Committee Exposed (Wonky)
Ezra games out what the conference committee could look like, as far as retaining the public option in the final bill: The members of the conference committee are chosen by the leadership. They...
The Gun-Toting Wingnuts Are Organized
TPM exposed the warlord behind the multitude of gun-toting wingnuts who appeared at the president's town hall meeting in Arizona: Ernest Hancock, the online radio host who staged an interview with an...
Healthcare Lies Debunked
Oliver Willis has joined the fight for the public option in a big way. Welcome aboard, sir. As part of a tab dump of sorts, he linked to a very valuable blog that debunks the variety of wingnut lies...
Winning Healthcare, Not Bipartisan Porn
The Democrats appear to have decided that actual healthcare reform -- hopefully with a strong public option -- is more important than giving soapy sponge baths to Chuck Grasshole. NYT: WASHINGTON —...
Go Barney Frank
All you can really do is shame and humiliate these nincompoops. Reasoning with them, as Frank implied, is a total waste of time.
Site Problems
Not sure if any Internet Explorer users noticed, but the blog has been crashing IE for roughly the last 12 hours. Yeah. That blows. I determined that it was a banner ad that was gunking up the werks...
Morning Awesome
Porno for Pyros - "Pets"
The Multiple Dimensions of Obama Politics
Noam Scheiber: Around the conference table at TNR, we've been saying for weeks that what Obama really needed was a group of equally vocal, equally zealous critics on the left, pulling the debate's...
No-Op
Shocker! A key member of Republican leadership in the Senate declared on Tuesday that a cooperative approach to health insurance was merely a "Trojan horse" for a government-run system. In a...
A Line in the Sand
I hope Kent Conrad and Max Baucus are paying attention to this: In an interview with the Huffington Post on Saturday, Richard Trumka, the secretary-treasurer and likely next president of the AFL-CIO...
Town Hall Wingnuts Are Classy
ThinkProgress: Woman yells ‘Heil Hitler’ to Jewish man praising Israel’s national health care system. And then she mocks the man with fake crying when he tells her about his bad healthcare experience...
Free Speech Swings Both Ways
Eric Boehlert is exactly right. Glenn Beck isn't being "censored" by liberal activists. Here's how it works. Glenn Beck has the right to say whatever he wants on his show. And we have the right to...
Congressman Weiner Nails Scarborough
This is really something to behold. The stunned silence from Scarborough when the congressman asks him, "What is the [health insurance industry's] value? What do they bring to the deal?" See timecode...
Quote of the Day
"So the next time you hear someone warning against a "government takeover" of our health care system, or that the creation of a public health insurance option would send us down the "slippery slope...