Former CNN producer Chez Pazienza: What's worth elaborating on when it comes to Lou Dobbs's alliance with the birther movement, though, is this: There's just no way Dobbs really believes the...
Dobbs and the Birthers
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Author - Bob Cesca
War vs. Healthcare
I made this point yesterday, but Thers puts it this way: Stupid foreign wars: cheered for, given blank checks, can't end them. Decent health care for Americans: worrying, can't be paid for...
Morning Awesome
Liz Phair - "Extraordinary"
Very Serious Question
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq were any of the Blue Dogs and Republicans screaming about how we would pay for it? What about Bush's $1 trillion tax cut for the super rich? Answer: Nope...
Crisis? What Crisis?
Of course the wingnut talkers don't believe there are serious problems with America's healthcare system. Rush Limbaugh can easily afford healthcare (including his impotence medication): Limbaugh, the...
Super Stupid
Fred Barnes is a moron. On the president's surtax on millionaires to pay for healthcare: Another tax hike -- especially on top of the increased taxes on individual income, capital gains, dividends...
Crazy Quote of the Day
“There are no Americans who don’t have healthcare. Everybody in this country has access to healthcare.” —Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) Americans have access to a lot of things. If they have the cash. But...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Manos: The Hands of Fate" The first ten minutes (more or less)
Note to Congress
Another 14,000 Americans lost their health insurance today. Zero members of Congress lost their health insurance today. And Max Baucus made another $1500 in bribes from the healthcare industry today...
WTF?
Rick Perry is effing crazy. Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the...
Grasshole
The Senate Republican with the most influence over the future of healthcare in America wrote this on his Twitter today: PTL BluDogs Keep barkin Pelosie bill is Govt takeovr of healthCare Breaks Obama...
White Supremacy
Yep. We still live in a nation where a black president's remarks condemning racial profiling are painted in the corporate media as more controversial and awful than the actions of a police officer...
Very Serious
Question. On Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show this morning, did I see a panel of guys all wearing funny hats and playing with trash bags? If so, why? And as I write this, Ratigan is showing a wedding video...
Enough Is Enough!
Harry Reid's latest wormy, spineless, low-T display of inexplicable capitulation: "The Republicans have asked for more time, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable," Reid said at a noon press conference...
An Oasis Of Reality…
...during the Glenn Beck Show. Glenn Beck and his guest were playing up the Gates situation for their white wingnut audience, and after a commercial break, Beck's stage crew chimed in with a...
Morning Awesome
SUGAR - "Helpless" From 1992's Copper Blue This album is damn near perfect.
Just Wow.
Chris Matthews apparently interrupted Gordon Liddy during his usual nappy time. Or he's stroking out on live television.
Just Blurt Out The N-Word Already
And get it over with. Michelle Malkin is an awful human being. And I'm being generous with "human being." (WARNING -- Link goes to Malkin's blog.) Adding... She's also a birther. So there's that, too.
I Hate Max Baucus
Hamsher reports: According to sources familiar with negotiations on the Senate Finance committee, there is a "bipartisan" deal in the works between Baucus, Enzi and Snowe that will not include a...
Quote of the Day
"Well now, first of all let me be clear, if there's not a deadline in Washington, nothing happens. Nothing ever happens. And, we just heard today, well, we may not be able to get the bill out of the...