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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Morning Awesome
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...
Quote of the Day
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...
Enough! Replace Max Baucus
A senator who represents a state of 967,440 people is absolutely screwing up healthcare reform for everyone else. Max Baucus has to go. He is spineless, ineffectual, corrupt and corrupt. Corrupt...
The Nuclear Option
Here's a shocker. Wingnuts are misusing the phrase "the nuclear option." As ThinkProgress describes, contrary to this misguided nonsense from far-right doofs like Hannity, a reconciliation vote isn't...
Pollgasm
Americans continue to overwhelmingly support the public option: A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage point higher than where it stood in...
Morning Awesome
Foo Fighters - "Summer's End" I'm driving to Virginia this afternoon for a much needed R&R weekend. Blogging might get sporadic, but I'll try to stay in the loop.
Re-framing Healthcare Language
I absolutely love this primer from George Lakoff about reshaping the language and frames we use when discussing healthcare reform. This was particularly smart: Doctor-Patient Care. This is what the...
Support the Billionaires
This is a really great idea. Tricking town hall wingnuts into supporting billionaires: The scary thing is that the whole C Street crowd really believes this. "The Family" is all about a Calvinist...
Why the Finance Committee?
If you heard the Blog Talk Radio show last night with me and Stranahan, you heard me screaming into my phone trying to explain exactly why the Finance Committee and its leaders, Baucus and Grassley...