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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Republican Healthcare Logic
I've been thinking about the Republican logic on government healthcare and the elderly. I know, I know. There is no logic. But insofar as they consider it to be perfectly logical, we'll call it logic...
Crazy Wingnut Fail
I love stories like this. In short: -Wingnut at an anti-healthcare rally spots Secret Service agents with guns. -Wingnut thinks Secret Service agents are deliberately targeting wingnuts. -Wingnut...
Wait Times and Rationing
Please tell me again, wingnuts, how America has the best healthcare system in the world. Tell me again how private insurance allows us to walk into any clinic and be treated on demand. And while the...
The Lies of Mike Pence
Yglesias on Mike Pence's MSNBC lies: Politicians engage in a volume of misrepresentation that is, at first, quite shocking. Then you realize it’s not shocking. Politicians wouldn’t lie of lying was...
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"Do Robots Dream of Bunnies?" By Piotr Karwas and Jesse Hill
Bribing the Blue Dogs
Posted without comment: On June 19, Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansas made clear that he and a group of other conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs were increasingly unhappy with the direction that...
Quote of the Day
"I'm with that woman who wrote the president complaining about "socialized medicine" and added: "Now keep your hands off my Medicare." That's the spirit!" —Jonathan Alter in full snark mode in his...