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...
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Obama Politics vs. Bush Politics
This quote from Matt Taibbi seems to be making its rounds. And as I wrote in the comments yesterday, I couldn't disagree more. John Cole makes a further distinction: Wars are easy to sell. As Goering...
Republicans Are Mostly Clueless
This is funny and not surprising: I’ve gotten an advance look at the relevant question from the poll, which will be released tomorrow, and here’s how it asks the question: Do you think the health...
And Then They Came for the Co-Op
Lesson in Republican politics. You give up the voluntary end-of-life reimbursements and they come for the public option. You cave and give up the public option, and they come for the co-ops. (Another...
Morning Awesome
"Fun with God" Directed by Matt Danner NSFW (there's the f-word in there)
Flashback
The last time there was an outcry about how the president sold us out and broke campaign promises was a few months ago regarding the Defense of Marriage Act.
Wal-Mart Bails Out of the Glenn Beck Show
Wal-Mart makes it a clean 20 advertisers that have pulled out of Glenn Beck's googly-eyed sarcasmo hour on Fox News Channel. Now it's getting serious. I wonder what the News Corp breaking point is...
WTF?
Did I just hear Chris Matthews tell Charlie Cook and Pat Buchanan that the gun-toting wingnuts who have turned up at the president's town halls succeeded in forcing the president to back away from...