The real tragedy of this latest Republican lie about senior citizens isn't just the skewing of the healthcare debate, but it's the fact that living wills and end-of-life planning are subjects that...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Big Lie
ThinkProgress assembled a compilation video featuring many, if not all examples of the "Obama wants to kill old people" lie I wrote about in my Huffington Post column this week: The Republican Party...
Morning Awesome
Mazzy Star - "Ghost Highway" Live in Chicago
Crazy Quote of the Day
"First, there’s no racial profiling. That’s the most — that’s the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard anybody say." —The Mark Fuhrman on Hannity's Fox News show By the way, you can bet that Hannity...
WTF?
On MSNBC today, Mike Pence illustrated Republican contradictions and hypocrisy on healthcare: PENCE: This is not a deal that will go over well with the American people. They understand what a...
Radio Show Open Thread
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Watering Down the Public Option
Henry Waxman reached an agreement with House Blue Dogs on healthcare reform and the public option: The Blue Dogs wrestled some concessions out of Waxman (D-Calif.), particularly related to a public...
New Huffington Post Column
Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots Enjoy and please Digg often.
Americans Love Public Health Insurance
I heard Mike Pence and Paul Ryan on MSNBC today both suggesting that Americans don't want government run health insurance. Wrong. Of course there's the overwhelming popular support for the public...
Robot Insurance Now!
Here's Rush Limbaugh scaring/deceiving old people with nonsense and fear-mongering: And the Obama administration eats old people's medicine for fuel. The reality is that the end-of-life counseling is...
The Politics of Procrastination
There's another reason why the Republicans and Blue Dogs want to delay healthcare reform. Sure, if they delay long enough, the 2010 midterms will strip away the political balls for reforming the...
Morning Awesome
Veruca Salt - "Seether" From a French TV show circa 1996 (Anyone picking up on the MA theme this week?)
Note to Congress, 7.28.09
Dear 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...
WTF?
What the hell is O'Reilly talking about here? How does the total number of deaths in a country translate to life expectancy, which is the average number of years a human is alive? I think the...
Afternoon Awesome
Shatner recites the LSD poetry of Sarah Palin.
Good News, Bad News
AP: A new government health insurance plan sought by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could coexist with private insurers without driving them out of business, an analysis by...
Just Blurt Out the N-Word, Glenn Beck
President Obama is half white! Beck is stoking white supremacist anger by insisting that the president hates white people. In other words, he's suggesting that it's okay to dislike President Obama...
Finance Committee Grabasses
Max Baucus and the Finance Committee don't know which end is up. They're refusing to include the public option in their version of the bill, claiming all along that they're worried about the cost...
Another Canadian Horror Story
From a Canadian reader via email: I live in a country amongst people who are very much like you. As far as healthcare goes...I never take my wallet when I go to my doctor (whom I chose & when I...
Tough Guy
Joe Scarborough, with the courage of his convictions, blocked Glenn Greenwald on Twitter. This is remarkably childish. As usual. A while back he hid behind Arianna's skirt and publicly tattled on me...