Author - Bob Cesca

Healthcare

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...

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Healthcare

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...

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Healthcare

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...

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Racism

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...

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The Media

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...

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Healthcare

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...

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Wingnuts

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...

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Healthcare

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...

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Quote

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...

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One Nation Under Fear

WTF?

Michelle Malkin: Uhhhhhh, demonizing doctors doesn’t exactly seem the best way to shore up support for the ailing, failing government health care takeover. But the fear-mongerer-in-chief can’t seem...

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Healthcare

Good Job

Abstinence is excellent! Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush's evangelically...

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Open Thread

Prime Time Thread

Open thread for your Wednesday night banter. Talk about whatever you want. And don't forget -- me and Stranahan on the internet radio tonight at 8PM EDT. I think we'll be commenting on the...

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