Mike Pence completely contradicts himself on Morning Joe. Like always. "Republicans believe that in addition to tort reform what we should allow Americans to do is to purchase health insurance the...
Author - Bob Cesca
Obvious Headline from An Unlikely Source
U.S. Economy Gets Lift From Stimulus There was never any doubt among non-crazy people that this would happen. The Wall Street Journal on the other hand... Barack Obama's Stimulus Plan Will Get Little...
Drudge Link Trolling
For months now, Eric Boehlert at Media Matters has been documenting how Politico has been deliberately crafting stories in order to get juicy links from Drudge, and, thusly, spikes in their traffic...
They're Hurting America
To paraphrase Bill Maher, yes, too many Americans are uninformed doofs. Here's the latest illustration: a poll showing that people don't understand healthcare reform. Yeah, no kidding. And at the...
The Robot Czars Will Strangle You
Glenn Beck is enhancing his crazy with actual robot voices. It's only a matter of time before he warns that the Obama robots are going to strangle old people with their robot claws and eat their...
Morning Awesome
U2 - "Stay (Faraway So Close)" Continuing our Zooropa theme week (This track was intended for Achtung Baby, but was cut.)
U.S.S. Constitution
Whoever shot this video tapped into a gold mine of Glenn Beck wingnuts all in one parking lot. Such awesome crazy. Oh by the way, these are the same people who several years ago were repeating in...
Racist, yes. And a Bigtime A-hole.
There's a lot to be pissed about in this video of racist Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KKK) in which the she tells Elizabeth Smith, an audience member without healthcare, to "be a grown up" and get insurance...
The Rest… Of the Story
Matt Taibbi playing the role of Paul Harvey: ...one of the funniest things that I think hasn’t gotten much attention is the fact that Harry Reid is depicted in “Casino.” He’s the guy who forces Ace...
Worst Person
Maria Bartiromo. I didn't know Medicare was available. Sign me up, Maria. You corporate doof.
We Lack Discipline
Robert Reich: History is not destiny, and Democrats and progressives can yet enact meaningful health care reform -- with a public option. But to do so, we'll need to be far more disciplined about it...
President Obama and the Centrists
On Morning Joe, they were just referencing David Brooks' latest column in which he discusses how President Obama needs to reconnect with "the center" on things like healthcare. "The center" on...
Wave Goodbye to the Gang of Six
Ezra Klein: Everyone I've spoken to in the Senate believes, strongly, that this process is about to break down, and the Democrats are going to move forward on a more partisan basis. It's about damn...
Morning Awesome
U2 - "Dirty Day" (Live from ZooTV in Sydney) Continuing our Zooropa theme week
Communists Everywhere!
Once again, Glenn Beck goes full Joe McCarthy. Blowing his crazy whistle on alleged "communists" in the White House. To repeat: Everyone knows you never go full Joe McCarthy.
Loaves and The Public Option
Jamison Foser makes an excellent point about the public option fight in Congress: If people who want a public plan and won't vote for a bill without it can be described as "preventing something...
Coup d'Etat
Wikipedia defines coup d'etat: A coup d'état, or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment —...
The Wingnut Answer To Everything
Death. And more death.
Compromising on Life & Death
Without falling into the "Obama should do X" trap and at the risk of joining the cacophony of theories about the recent polls, I think it's pretty clear why the president's numbers are sagging. While...
Cheney and the 'No Attacks Mythology'
Here's Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday: I guess the other thing that offends the hell out of me, frankly, Chris, is we had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further...