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Author - Bob Cesca
Legislative Maximalism
Atrios posted an item about how the Democrats should've gone into healthcare with single-payer as the benchmark, then compromised down to the public option. Ezra Klein, however, disagrees: If...
Fava Beans And A Nice Chianti
Let's say you're walking down the street and someone with crazy eyes stops you and begins to rant about how shifty urban types working for the U.S. Census would be forcing you to give them your phone...
Limbaugh Blames Obama for Sanford's Affair
Rush Limbaugh blames, of all people, President Obama for Mark Sanford's affair: "This is almost like, 'I don't give a damn, the country's going to Hell in a handbasket, I just want out of here,'"...
A New Member of the Coalition
Via a reader, Senator John Kerry joins the Coalition of the Corrupt and Spineless. Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reports: In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and...
Crazy Quote of the Day
"Let me be the first to say this plainly: These Judges deserve to be killed." —Wingnut internet talk show host Hal Turner about a recent court decision regarding handguns Hal Turner was arrested by...
Conrad Backpedals on Emanuel Remark
Yesterday, we were rightfully freaking out about a report indicating that Rahm Emanuel was willing to jettison the public option in lieu of a compromised healthcare bill. Apparently Rahm didn't mean...
Competition
I watched the ABC healthcare special last night from beginning to end, including the overflow into the Nightline slot. Perhaps the most frustrating bit was when Ron Williams, the chairman and CEO of...
Morning Awesome
HAARM - "Fire Care"
Dump The Sick
A former senior executive with Cigna, Wendell Potter, testified on the Hill today that his former employer routinely "dumped the sick." "[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they...
Radio Show Open Thread
Me and Stranahan on the internet radio! Live show begins at 8PM EDT. Listen live here. Tonight! Allena Hansen -- the woman who was mauled by a bear, and then mauled by her health insurance carrier...
WTF?
Just look. Didn't Bill Hicks do a bit about this exact thing? The punchline was: "More Snickers! More Coke!"
Doof Quote of the Day
"Americans don't want more government in health care." —Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Americans don't want more government in healthcare. Except the 72 percent of Americans who do.
Family Values
Steve Benen: In a strange and meandering press conference, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) explained this afternoon that he'd been "unfaithful" to his wife, after developing a "relationship"...
Scoldborough
Via Paddy, here's Scoldborough and Matthews debating healthcare reform this morning: Joe likes to say that he's opposed to the Bush administration spending, but he supported almost every individual...
New Member of the Coalition
Until we hear otherwise, Rahm Emanuel joins the Coalition of the Corrupt & Spineless. Via Greg Sargent: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met last night at the U.S. Capitol with Senate...
Ignore, Ignore, Ignore
Nobody likes the Republicans. CBS/NY Times 28 favorable NBC/WSJ 25 favorable Pew 29 congressional GOP leader approval Research 2000 24 GOP favorable ABC/WaPo poll 36 approval While the Republicans...
Okay, This Is Just Weird
So he wasn't hiking naked on "hike naked" day. Was it "Douchebag Sailing" day in Argentina? Gov. Mark Sanford arrived in the Hartsville-Jackson International Airport Wednesday morning, having wrapped...
Morning Awesome
Healthy Americans Against Reforming Medicine (HAARM) "Messaging session"
Worst Person
Richard M. Nixon in newly released White House tapes: "There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape." How many ways is this awful? While...