Lee Stranahan and I on the internet radio tonight at 8PM EDT, commenting on the president's prime time press conference in real time. So watch along with us, why dontcha. Listen live here. Watch the...
Author - Bob Cesca
The Lewin Group
I mentioned this in my Huffington Post column today, but here's an expanded look. The Republicans, along with various cable news wingnuts, are fond of quoting scary numbers from a report issued by...
New Huffington Post Column
Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed Enjoy and Digg often. (You've probably read some of the bits here already, but it's sweeter smelling when it's all together in one place.)
Chris Matthews Rips A Birther
This is pretty great.
The Cheap Public Option
Following up on Michele Bachmann's quote below, I thought I'd do some math today. I clicked over to one of those health insurance shopping sites, entered my family's information (family of three, non...
Quote of the Day
"Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will drop the insurance because the taxpayer-subsidized plan will be 30 to 40 percent cheaper...
You've Got To Be Effing Kidding Me
David Kurtz: In what has to be among Fox News' all-time lowlights, Neil Cavuto had a segment a short while ago on whether the new surgeon general nominee, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, is "too fat" for the...
Morning Awesome
Snow Patrol - "If There's A Rocket Tie Me To It" From their latest album A Hundred Million Suns
Jens Voigt
One of my favorite riders crashed today on Stage 16 -- and landed on his face. The following is not for the squeamish: Jens Voigt is one of those riders who isn't the fastest or most gifted, but he...
Sean Hannity's Faker Ass Kicked…
...by Tom Arnold. Yes, Tom Arnold. Go look. Here's just a small sampling of how truly excellent our current system is, via Ed Schultz. During the month of August... 143,000+ will lose their health...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Tuesday night blogotubery. I just heard someone on Ed Schultz suggest that we can't have the public option because there are lines at the DMV. The last time I waited in line at...
Drama!
I've been observing for a couple of days the corporate media's very obvious attempt to paint healthcare reform as being impossible, doomed, screwed and so forth. Of course this is because the...
Doof Quote of the Day
Sorry. I've never done this before, but I have to call an audible here and let Mr. Boren off the hook. There's a new and much doofier Doof Quote of the Day: "Apparently the ham contract didn’t pay...
The F-22 Is Done
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...
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 ...