Foo Fighters - "Wheels" Live from the White House
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Remove Schumer from the COCS
This sounds great, as long as he sticks with it: The healthcare reform bill that emerges from Congress this year will include a government-run public health insurance option, regardless of the...
There Are Other Great American Cyclists
SPOILER WARNING. After two stages, Lance Armstrong is only 40 seconds behind the yellow jersey (worn by one of my favorite riders, Fabian Cancellara). Not too bad. But with all of the press...
Doucheborough
Joe Scarborough wishes for a serious NBC White House correspondent -- with Chuck Todd listening from his post at the White House.
Paging Lars Ulrich
This reminds me of Metallica's spastic and ultimately self-defeating crusade against Napster: Ratcheting up her offensive against the news media, Gov. Sarah Palin’s attorney threatened Saturday to...
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Brendan Canning - "Hit the Wall" From Something for All Of Us
My Response to the President
President Obama said: "We shouldn't be focusing resources on each other," Obama opined in the call, according to three sources who participated in or listened to the conversation. "We ought to be...
WTF?
So Sarah Palin quit her job as governor. Just walked away for no tangible reason. And what do a variety of wingnuts say about it? She's a FIGHTER, of course. Yep. She quit, so she's a fighter. Quit =...
Scary Cycling Story Du Jour
It used to be that cycling caused testicular cancer. Then it was erectile dysfunction. Then it was prostate cancer. Now it's bone loss. It's all hysterical nincompoopery. Some of it hyped in order to...
Grasshole
This is shocking. The following is an actual exchange with Chuck Grassley at a town hall in Waukon, IA this past week: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was asked by a constituent of his: “Why is your...
Use the Position Flexible, Luke!
Wingnut cuckoo's-nester Erik Erickson Erick Erik Erikman on Palin's implosion: I’ve had this running thought all day, perhaps because I was watching it on TV in HD for the first time, that this is...
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MST3K Saturday! - Fire Maidens from Outer Space The first nine minutes
Crazy Quote of the Week
"Life is too short to compromise time and resources... it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: "Sit down and shut up", but...
Embezzlement Also
ThinkProgress: Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal. The gist of the...
The Storm Off
Josh Marshall: Okay, we're getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin's part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti...
Palin Resigning
Sarah Palin is resigning as governor of Alaska. You know, position flexible also. UPDATE: Video via Paddy. This speech (or stream of conscious nonsensical ramble) absolutely goes into the WTF? hall...
Quote of the Day
"God killed Michael Jackson to save your ass -- and you gave another interview?!?" —Jon Stewart to Mark Sanford
More Harry Reid Spinelessness
Unbelievable: “I don’t dictate how people vote,” he said in an interview this month. “If it’s an important vote, I try to tell them how important it is to the Senate, the country, the president … But...
Bloomberg Endorses the Public Option
Michael Bloomberg: Today, most Americans get their health coverage from private insurers. A public health insurance option would create a competitor to private insurers that could potentially drive...
On the Radio
I'll be on the Young Turks today at around 12:20PM eastern talking healthcare, COCS and the public option. UPDATE: Going on any second now. UPDATE 2: All done!