From one of the smartest men ever to serve in government, here is Robert Reich's take on the state of the health care reform bills now being fought over in Congress. The entire article is well worth reading:
But even the House's shrunken and costly little public option is too [...]
There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: “Pray for Obama: [...]
Unhappy fans of Sarah Palin went rogue on the Alaska Republican during her book tour stop in Noblesville, Indiana on Thursday.
The local Borders outlet had handed out 1,000 wristbands to book purchasers; the wristbands were supposed to procure fans Palin's signature on their hardback copies of [...]
Despite what the MSM is reporting, only "old, white, and Republican voters" oppose trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other Guantanamo inmates:
Buried in the internals of the new Marist poll of New York City residents is a striking finding: Opposition to trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators in [...]
Sarah Palin has the gall to complain about "sexist" coverage of her by Newsweek. (This isn't the first time she's had a problem with a Newsweek cover, either.) Who does Palin think she is, after she slandered President Obama in her' [...]
The Fox talking heads complained this morning that President Obama bowed to the Emperor of Japan.
Bowed.
To the Emperor of Japan.
And they have a problem with this??
First of all, wingnut dipshits, the Emperor bowed back. That's how it's done in Japan. A bow is a show [...]
Lou Dobbs announced last night that he's leaving CNN. Yea!! Looks like CNN management finally realized that he's an insane, racist hypocrite. Now Dobbs is free to go to Faux News and compete against Glenn Beck for the title of "Bugfuck-Craziest Commentator." [...] 
Kos, Retweet from Twitter:
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart does a picture-perfect spoof of idiotic racist Faux News commentator Glenn Beck:
Glenn Beck suffered an appendicitis attack yesterday during his radio show. He's currently hospitalized following surgery. We send him our coldest regards.' [...] As I predicted, the wingnut punditry is celebrating its wins in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, while ignoring the shellacking it took in NY-23 and Cal-10. Not too hard to make that prediction, since Virginia goes opposite the party in power, and New Jersey was Corsine's to lose,' [...]
--Macbeth: Act 5, Scene 5
I've been avoiding the news today, in [...]
From the "I Knew It Hadda Happen" Dept:
Liz Cheney, she of the fanatical stare and hell-borne bloodline, has manufactured a reason to complain about President Obama's visit to Dover AFB:
Cheney, on Fox News Radio's John Gibson Show yesterday:
Something else Barack Obama has done, that George Bush never did:Nobody tell the TSA, but last month someone tried to assassinate a Saudi prince by exploding a bomb stuffed in his rectum. He pretended to be a repentant militant, when [...]
Finally got the list of the thirty senators, all of 'em Republicans, who voted against Sen. Al Franken's first bill, "To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor" [...]
Asked specifically about polling data showing the public option with strong national support, the conservative Democrat added, "I think that when people hear 'public option,' they hear 'free'" [...]
Whoopee! That piece of shit health care bill that Max Baucus dreamed up passed the Senate Finance Committee with just one Republican vote:
The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reshape the American health care system and provide subsidies to help millions of people buy [...]
By now you must know--unless you've been living under a rock for the past 24 hours--that President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:
Rush Limbaugh asked his astrologer on what day he would die.
"On an American holiday," the astrologer replied.
"But which holiday?"
"Any day you die will be a American holiday."
[...]MN Governor Tim Pawlenty, in addition to thinking he's a viable candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, also thinks he's a comedian:
The Minnesota Governor called Cash for Clunkers "misguided" and "ludicrous" before saying, "There's a joke out now that says the main value of the Cash for'" [...]
Been a tough few weeks for me: busy with my start-up, my fibro has been flaring up badly, friends and family have been in & out of the hospital, and other such stuff. So, I've missed a lot of recent foolishness: Bacus obeying his masters and delivering a health care' [...]
I got a note from a good friend yesterday expressing shock, and anger, about Drudge and Malkin's usage of that alleged racial beat-down on a school-bus. On some level, I wonder if something's wrong with me. I'm neither shocked, nor angry. This is' [...]
President Jimmy Carter once again displayed his courage, wisdom, and moral clarity, saying that Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-SC) despicable heckling of President Obama during a Joint Session of Congress "was based on racism."
In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, Carter said:
Thanks to blogger spork_incident for bringing this to my attention. According to a press release for SEIU, 9 states allow insurance companies to consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition, and use that to [...]
Thousands of conservative protesters from across the country converged on the Capitol Saturday morning to demonstrate against President Obama's proposals for health care reform and voicing opposition to big government, what they say is over-the-top spending.
Honest to God, I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or get insanely angry at the week-long outcry over President Obama's speech to America's schoolchildren earlier today. The President of the United States of America wants to give a pep talk to returning students at the start of the school' [...]
Watch this video, and then try to tell me that the Repugs are serious about "bipartisan health care reform":
80% of the American people support a public option, yet these fatcats--every one of whom is currently receiving government-run health care--is against a public option. The final bill will have a public [...]
The wingnuttiest wingnut of them all rides again! Congresscritter Michele Bachmann (R-Cloud Cuckoo Land) was in Colorado yesterday telling fellow reactionaries to give their all to oppose health care reform:
"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing," [...]FactCheck.org has been really busy poring through conservative claims about the house health care bill, particularly a chain email [...]
