BooMan reports: The Pentagon says we don't need any more F-22 fighters and President Obama has threatened to veto any defense appropriations bill that includes funding for more of them. However, the...
The F-22 Is Done
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Baucus Still Taking Healthcare Lobbyist Cash
Last month, we reported that Max Baucus, chairman of the Finance Committee tasked with authoring healthcare reform legislation, was holding a $2,500-a-head fundraising event with healthcare industry...
Crappy Healthcare Poll Numbers for Obama
President Obama's approval numbers on healthcare aren't looking so good. Obama's overall approval rating is 55%, with 41% disapproval. [...] On the economy, his approval is 47%, with 49% disapproval...
Ham! It's Wacky!
The other day, I clicked over to Drudge and noticed giant red all-caps headlines about a $2 million two-pound ham paid for out of recovery act funds. Much like Mr. Punch-Me Face who thinks comedy =...
Palin Needs A Good Editor
Vanity Fair copy-edited Sarah Palin's resignation speech, and it's a thing of beauty. Only when you see the text with the corrections made can you truly appreciate how terrible that speech was...
Morning Awesome
Bill Moyers on healthcare, Cigna and the new Surgeon General. Now meet H. Edward Hanway, the Chairman and CEO of Cigna, the country's fourth largest insurance company. At the beginning of the year...
Contador Isn't Invincible
Stage 16, 2007, dropped by Michael Rasmussen: This year's Paris-Nice, Stage 7, dropped by the entire peloton: Contador is an amazing rider, but he's much more vulnerable than everyone is saying ...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Monday night blogotubings. I'm sad to announce that my grapes are pretty much screwed with the black rot despite my efforts to control the fungus. But the good news is that so...
Calling Out the Bastards
President Obama calling out the corrupt and spineless today: "Now, there are some in this town who are content to perpetuate the status quo, are in fact fighting reform on behalf of powerful special...
Right Wing Terrorists
‘Operation Rescue’ founder warns of ‘violent convulsions’ if health bill doesn’t ban abortions. What else do you call this?
Oh, And It'll Create A Surplus, Too
The House healthcare reform bill, complete with the public option, will be revenue neutral in its first ten years and eventually will generate a surplus: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"If, when the facts are in, we find out that through some convoluted chain of events, he really was captured by the Taliban, I'm with him. But, if he walked away from his post and his buddies at...
Phantom Menace
If you watched Morning Joe today (minus Shweaty Joe), you probably noticed the overall vibe in the 8AM hour was to describe healthcare reform as being in jeopardy. No reasons given. No polls or...
From the Earth to the Moon
40 years ago today, human beings walked on the Moon for the first time.
A Price Tag is A Price Tag
For the Ben Nelson Gang of Six, this was fine and dandy: President George W. Bush signed into law Thursday the first major piece of legislation of his presidency, a $1.35 trillion tax cut over 10...
The Epitaph for Meet the Press
David Gregory via email to an aide of Mark Sanford: [C]oming on Meet The Press allows you to frame the conversation how you really want to...and then move on. You can see (sic) you have done your...
Morning Awesome
REM - "Orange Crush" Live
Armstrong Got Ripped Apart
Alberto Contador just rocketed up the final climb in today's Stage 15. And Lance is conceding that Contador is the stronger rider -- which was extraordinarily obvious on the climb. Today, at least...
Sunday Night Thread in America
Open thread for your Sunday banter and random discussions. I cycled past the Jon & Kate compound today. Their litter of children were decked out in arm floaties and jumping around in an...
The Wealthiest Two Percent
Yglesias presents a chart showing what percentage of Americans state-by-state would pay a slightly higher tax rate in order to help fund healthcare reform. Upshot -- it's anywhere from 1 to 2 percent...