I'm pretty sure this isn't a clever meta-joke: I love the fact that she's wearing white (no hood?) and there's hillbilly banjo pickin' in the keyboard accompanyment. It completes the package of...
Banjo Pickin' Birther Song
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Author - Bob Cesca
The PHRMA Deal
I'm no fan of the drug companies but when they're agreeing to kick in $150 million in advertising to support healthcare reform (which is both important and historical) and when they're agreeing to...
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Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts - "Dee" Directed and animated by Anton Bogaty
The Party of White
Republican favorable numbers among Latino voters have dropped by eleven points during the Justice Sotomayor nomination process. Eleven points is a lot. It's even more significant when we see that the...
Wingnuttia Descends Upon Dingell
This is probably the craziest display of wingnut rage yet. Actually, it doesn't top the shrieking "I'm scared!" lady, but it's close. I seriously waffle back and forth between having utter contempt...
And It Gets Crazier
Okay so the latest concept from the far-right is to blame the Democrats and President Obama for the tea party mobs and any potential violence that could erupt in the process. Peggy Noonan, for...
Winning the Message War
I just heard Erin Billings from Roll Call say on MSNBC, "The Republicans have been pretty good at winning the message war." Winning the message war? Is Billings suggesting that flagrantly lying about...
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MST3K Saturday - "Robot Holocaust" The first ten minutes (give or take)
Crazy Quote of the Week
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective...
The Poor Bastard Tax
Max Baucus' Finance Committee has come up with perhaps the worst idea of the entire healthcare reform debate. Yes, worse than Kent Conrad's stupid and ineffectual co-op thing. According to Ezra...
Or Maybe They Do Fear Affordable Healthcare
Earlier, I speculated that the shrieking "I'm scared!" lady couldn't possibly be that afraid of healthcare reform. But then again, if she believes all of the lies from the corporate organizers of the...
'Healthers'
Ben Cohen came up with a great term for the anti-healthcare yahoos: I think we should come up with a new term for the Healthcare nuts - the 'Healthers' in homage to the 'Birthers'. They are equally...
Breaking!
News flash from Atrios: Some people behave badly while traveling. Some of them happen to be bike riders. Shocker! But I'd wager that for every bike rider zig-zagging down a sidewalk, there's at least...
Where The Wild Things Are
New trailer. I can't remember the last time I watched a movie trailer that actually made me feel good. Adding... The song "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire is really perfect. (Yes, I know this the second...
'I'm Scared!' Of Affordable Healthcare? No Way.
Last night when I saw this lady shrieking on Countdown about how she's "scared" and wants "her America back," my first reaction was, She's screaming about the "browning" of America. Not healthcare...
Cryptorchidism
Harry Reid: "I had a meeting last Monday with a number of consultants. They all said, 'Get off this exact date. The American people don't care about exact dates. All they want is something to get...
The Obama Recovery
The economy is improving: Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. And the DJIA has gone from...
As You Observe the Wingnut Hooligans…
...and their obnoxious protests against, you know, affordable, portable, reliable healthcare, bear in mind the numbers from the latest CNN poll. -77 percent of Americans support "major structural...
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Flight of the Conchords - "The Robot Song"
Go Rick Sanchez
Sanchez takes down a corrupt corporate financier of the fake town hall movement: Yep. That's the stuff.