In the first two days, more than 1,500 men, women and children received free treatments worth $503,000 (£304,000). Thirty dentists pulled 471 teeth; 320 people were given standard issue spectacles;...
Author - Bob Cesca
My First Football Post
The hiring of Michael Vick gives me a substantive, real-life reason to root against the Eagles this season. Yes, he did his time. But the Eagles have hired someone who tortured and murdered dogs for...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday - "The Giant Gila Monster" The first ten minutes (give or take)
Go Lawrence O'Donnell
O'Donnell totally ripped into Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) this evening on Hardball. This is truly riveting. Once backed into a corner, Culberson resorts to very typical Republican tactics. Rather than...
Kent Conrad Is A Hack
But he might very well be a clever hack. News came down this afternoon that Senator Conrad pledged to vote against "government-run healthcare." Both TPM and Firedoglake, for example, are reporting...
I Might Actually Watch 'Meet the Press'
Dick Armey was forced to quit his gig at DLA Piper, a lobbying firm, due to his association with the town hall wingnuttery. Rachel Maddow is partly responsible for exposing his connection to...
The President's Montana Town Hall
In his opening remarks, the president really nailed the idea that this is about fixing health insurance for the people who have it. Almost nothing about the uninsured -- just the dangers of the under...
I'm An Idiot Child
...At least, according to this extended screed by a revved-up wingnut blogger. Most revealing is that, once again, he never proves me wrong. But one thing he does prove is that Malkin and Fox News...
Damon Weaver Gets His Interview
I love this.
Glenn Beck Is A Wingnut Fraud
This takedown of Glenn Beck on healthcare represents The Daily Show at its best. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Glenn Beck's Operation www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full...
Deals with the Devil
We've spent some time here on the blog debating the deal between the White House and PhRMA and I wanted to jot down a clarification of my position on this whole thing. First, the deal should come as...
President Clinton's Speech at Netroots Nation
Matt Osborne liveblogged the speech here. And some heckling on DADT. You'd think with the town hall hooligans resorting to these tactics, we'd be deliberately more civil. But okay. President Clinton...
Morning Awesome
SNL - "Jon Hamm's John Ham" New season of Mad Men starts Sunday.
Hot War
Good freaking gravy: WESTWOOD -- A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase that ended in a standoff outside the Federal Building. Yep. And the far...
Worst Person
Glenn Beck mocks an 11-year-old girl. Classy. The fact that Glenn Beck is endangering the safety of a child by lumping her in as a "co-conspirator" in this so-called fascist/socialist (??) takeover...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"But I would suggest that anybody who doubts her intellectual heft or her ability to learn and study, go to her Facebook page, look at the notes that she's taken -- it's right there -- the study that...
Lying Works
I'm both shocked and not very surprised by this: [G]rowing complaints over the [end-of-life] provision are leading key lawmakers to conclude that the health overhaul should leave out any end-of-life...
'Death to Obama' Wingnut Detained
Some good news: HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading "Death to Obama" outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in western...
Fox Continues To Target Children
Fox News just can't stop targeting that 11-year-old girl from the president's town hall. As I wrote in my Huffington Post column this week, Fox News is surely aware of its reactionary wingnut...
The Healthcare Message vs. Wingnut Crazy
Benen on the far-right healthcare attacks: ...it pays to lie, blatantly and repeatedly, when launching a campaign against a policy initiative. If proponents ignore your bogus claims, they go...