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A little northern humour on the bailouts in the key of "eh?"
The banks may not all be solvent but the comment threads are. Deposit your thoughts below.
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And he is Jimmy Carter too!
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart takes a look at the healthcare successes of the Democrats:
Flushing out Boehner's lie on Meet the Press and a David Gregory that doesn't follow politics well enough to be able to call him out on the obvious:
Via Jed Lewison, the happy-go-lucky teabaggers:
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com did a great job of breaking down some poll numbers for the Public Option on a district by district level and across the nation. I did a quick cut and paste of the numbers just for Connecticut:Do you really want to be a repeat of the 80th "Do Nothing" Congress?
Pres.Truman: “On several occasions
during the past year I have reported to the Congress and to the Nation
on our general economic situation. These reports have told of new high
levels of production and employment. Farmers [...]
We know that the biggest reason you all are pissed about this is that your failed Reagonomic free-marketeers-run-amok ideas that caused the shadow bank meltdown and the economic mess we are in now have already been discredited to the point that nobody wants to hear them anymore. [...] There has been a lot said and written about the current arguments between Salon's Glenn Greenwald and Time's Joe Klein. I wonder what the real journalist will have to say in response to Klein?
That didn't take long?
Beltway culture, checks on journalists and secrecy obligations
I'm [...]
RIP Edward Kennedy 
ctblogger had the story up early at HatCityBLOG and MLN, and the Newstimes got around to covering it as well, on Bethel's First Selectman, Bob Burke, being arrested for making harassing phone calls.
What?!?Violence flared in East Haven, as New Haven activists marching to protest alleged police racism tangled with out-of-state “white nationalists.”
The clash happened during an event organized Saturday by New Haven immigrant advocacy organization Unidad Latina En Acción. More than 100 people marched through the [...]
Jane Hamsher kicks stupid's butt here:
As Emptywheel notes:
Look at what was happening here. Mitchell was trying to talk down to Jane, to suggest that she was being naive for suggesting that Bayh, and not progressives, should back down and accept the public option. In doing so, Mitchell was committing [...]
Funny or Die? 
