Chris Matthews' "big number" tonight was 61. That is, 61 percent of Democrats apparently told Rasmussen, a Republican polling outfit, that George W. Bush knew something about the 9/11 attacks and...
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Describe This Protester
This is one of the far-right anti-healthcare protesters who shouted "incomprehensible" loud noises at a town hall held by Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI): Without insulting the guy, here's how I would...
Doof Quote of the Day
"If you like the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles and you think they’re run well, just wait till you see Medicare, Medicaid and health care done by the government." —Arthur Laffer on...
Sigh
More bipartisanship porn. This time from the White House. Despite confronting near absolute opposition from the Republican side of the aisle on health care, President Obama and Senate Democrats...
Beck Outs Islamic School in Virginia
Just out of curiosity, I flipped over to Glenn Beck's Fox News show this afternoon. I was just in time to catch what appears to be a regular segment in which he claims to report news that the...
Afternoon Awesome
What's the deal with this scene?
Look at All That Blue
New Gallup numbers: Whenever I see a map like this, I can't help but to think back to 2004 when Hannity kept showing the electoral map while crowing, "Look at all that red!" Gallup observes: Since...
The Health Insurance Death Star
Andrew Sullivan wrote something that kind of underscored why healthcare is an emergency and why robust reform is needed now: If you look at the current house bill with the most steam behind it, this...
Birthers and False Equivalencies
Another Morning Joe chunk of ridiculousness here. Joe spent an entire segment this morning on the Birthers, but in the context of trying to tell his audience that there are crazy conspiracy people on...
Doucheborough
I flipped over to Morning Joe this morning just in time to hear Scarborough complaining that the administration is moving too fast and declaring everything from the economic meltdown to the...
Morning Awesome
The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
Shame On The Older Wingnuts
At the risk of offending some people, have you noticed that there quite a few senior citizens participating in these anti-reform wingnut disruptions of town hall meetings? Old people who, we can only...
Cash, Clunkers and Healthcare
This has probably been observed numerous times today, but this new argument from the Republicans (paraphrasing) -- "if the government ran out of money on Cash for Clunkers, how can they be trusted...
Healthcare Reform Seized By Wingnuts
Okay, I'll admit that I'm a little concerned about this tea party town hall anti-reform loud noises movement. Between the $1.4 million per day being spent to lobby and advertise against healthcare...
Actual Loud Noises
Several months ago, I wrote about how the tea party movement and broader wingnuttia were merely engaged in making loud noises, rather than having a coherent or logical position on anything in the...
Disastertainment
Digby on the upswing in disaster entertainment: It strikes me as a bit odd that the infotainment complex is hitting the fear button so hard right now. I was always told that during the depression...
Birther Fail
The Birthers are crapping their cages over what they consider to be an authentic birth certificate from Kenya. Too bad it's a total forgery. Also... Additional debunking here. Source
Hell Yes
This made me grin from ear to ear: President Obama, Congressional Democrats and leading advocacy groups are laying the groundwork for an August offensive against the insurance industry as part of a...
Morning Awesome
Superman in "The Mechanical Monsters" Produced by Max Fleischer Directed by Dave Fleischer 1941
Doof Quote of the Day
"If you put enough government cheese in front of people they are just going to keep eating it and you're just kicking the can down the road and just to hammer this point about the unemployment...