“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is...
Author - Bob Cesca
Mike Pence Continues To Be A Lying Liar
On Fort Worth television: WANE-TV: "I do want to ask you about the health care bill - sort of a specific about it. Many people have heard that the Congress and the executive branch would be exempt...
The Following Is A Huge, Stupid, Impotent Lie
Rush Limbaugh suggesting that Hitler was a man "of the left": This would be hilarious if it wasn't so remarkably wrong in every way. Hitler was a liberal? A liberal?! So what we can deduce is that...
Real Life 'Death Panels'
This is a long post, but it's very important. Question for Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck: How else would you describe the following real life story, as documented in Michael Moore's SiCKO...
Shocker! Beck Agrees With Palin
Beck on Palin's "Obama Death Panels will kill my baby!" crazy talk: "I believe it to be true." And he's going to devote a segment of his show today examining the death panel theory. Incidentally...
Wingnut Paradox
Josh Marshall: The conservative activist who claims he was beaten up by union thugs in St. Louis while protesting against health care reform is accepting donations towards his medical care because he...
'Conversation'
I've been meaning to mention this, so now's as good a time as any. Has anyone else noticed that they say the word "conversation" a lot -- and I mean all the damn time -- on MSNBC? I don't know...
The Liberal 'Circular Firing Squad' Is Back
At no other time in this debate over healthcare reform has there been a more obvious set of enemies. The Republicans, talk radio and Fox News are fabricating off-the-wall lies practically on a daily...
Morning Awesome
The New Pornographers - "The Bleeding Hearts Show" Live from Webster Hall, NYC (If you have Comcast On Demand, this whole concert is available in the Music section under Concert TV.)
Try Again
Picking up where he left off the other day, Atrios writes: I like cycling and cyclists just great, and certainly support making places more bike friendly, but I also think that cyclists who behave...
Gingrich Agrees With Palin on 'Death Panels'
Seriously. He agrees. And Gingrich is widely considered a wise old man of Republican politics. I tell you what, if any government panel tries to tell Sarah Palin that she has to euthanize her Down's...
On The Other Hand, We'll Concede These Items
This is a spot-on post by Stroszek at the Daily Kos. In it, he concedes all of the objections by the Healthers. For example: 1. We will not euthanize your grandmother. 2. Rahm Emanuel's brother will...
Durbin and The Public Option
I think Sam Stein's item in the Huffington Post is slightly misleading. The way the headline is written, it sounds like Senator Durbin is dropping his support for the public option. Instead, Durbin...
Banjo Pickin' Birther Song
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...
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...