With friends like these…

Seriously, I don’t get this dumb strategy of painting town hall folks, whether they’re astroturfers or not, as Un-American, like the KKK, etc. It’s not only counterproductive, it’s completely lazy. You could easily marginalize purposefully rowdy people with the facts of the debate and yet this is what we get?
As I’ve said [...]

What’s telling about the conversations surrounding the “evils” of government run health care is how many people seem to reflexively applaud the notion of government staying out of the business of health care…and yet nobody who’s on Medicare wants to get rid of it.
Watch the following clip and tell me it’s not frustrating to watch…

And [...]

Not that I wouldn’t do the same if put in the position Obama is in on health care, economy, etc., but it’s telling that he’s being so blatant about it. The gloves are about to come off after the recess. I can almost guarantee it.

I’m sure in the coming years you’ll see more cooperation between [...]

I wrote about the problems the Postal Service faced back in January, and today we get word that their financial woes are even more severe than previously thought.
From NBC…

Back to the January post, which was about cutting back on delivery days, I saw two advantages to that model…
First, the fewer the days the mail is [...]

Gallup did a state by state assessment and came up with the following map. Very discouraging for the Repubs out there.

I think this is mostly due to the fact that Republicans still aren’t proposing viable solutions. And that’s probably because they lack any true leadership right now.
Also, whether they want to admit it or not, [...]

I feel dumber for having seen this, but it’s so hilariously clueless that I couldn’t stop watching.

(Stolen from BTB. Thx Doug!)

It boils down to this…a public option will remain, but co-ops will be part of the deal too.
This will likely pass in the House, and the public option will be booted from the Senate’s version.
More from MSNBC…

Then Roll Call…
House leaders, the White House and four Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee reached [...]

Yes, I know the reason. But still…
MSNBC laments…
What’s most amazing about this episode is that what Beck said isn’t a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would actually cost the ranters their jobs.
But not anymore; if anything, it’s now encouraged.
Of note, after [...]

“There’s been no final resolution, but I think there’s a good chance the cooperative plan will be adopted, at least at the committee level. The notion of a cooperative plan is that it’s membership-controlled, membership-run — not government-run, government-controlled.”
- Kent Conrad on CNBC talking about the only workable national health care solution
Back when co-ops were [...]

Some salient discussion of Glenn Beck’s mystifying comments with the Morning Joe crew, sans Morning Joe himself.

I think that they are all correct in their assessments.
I do want to highlight one thing that Willie Geist touched upon. Around the five minute mark, Geist posits the idea that, had some commentator on the [...]

I didn’t comment on her farewell speech because I didn’t want to sound mean yet again.
Best to let it speak for itself!
Shatner reads a part of her speech verbatim.

So good.

“This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
- Glenn Beck demonstrating again why he’ll only ever appeal to fringers
Here’s the clip…

At a certain point, even if you are Fox News, you really have to start [...]

I honestly never thought it would come to this, but here we have Robert Gibbs talking about the willful ignorance that is the birthers movement.

I think we all need to step back for a moment and realize just how amazing this is.
Because, to the best of my knowledge, nobody in the White House has ever [...]

The Wall Street Journal uncovers what happened, but we’ve discussed it quite a bit here already. The banks were allowed to over leverage themselves to the point of failure. Sure, relaxed rules on home ownership were a contributing factor to the downfall, but that was a symptom of the disease of easy credit, not the [...]

It’s so ridiculous I hate to give it any digital ink, but after Dobbs jumped on the crazy train, well, it must be done.

That Republican bill is especially ridiculous. What a cowardly wink and nod to the birthers. Anybody who has their name on that bill should be ashamed of themselves.
So then, question….why do you [...]

I’m a little late to this game, but wow…just wow…

This is how it starts. “Why won’t Obama….?” and then it’s a slow, steady decline.
So many sites have debunked this claim, and then there’s the clipping from the newspaper in Honolulu the day after he was born…

Yeah, his parents were planning Obama’s Presidential run from [...]

As you can see below, the title of this post was an actual caption on Fox News.

So their argument is basically, “Because Universal Health Care brings about more diversity, it’s more likely to attract terrorists because Muslims will fit in and not be noticed. Best to have private practices where white, Christian doctors make up [...]

You have to feel for Rep. Mike Castle. Because dealing with loons like this has to make him question what’s going on with the Republican base. Especially when everybody starts clapping for the birther and booing Castle when he says Obama is a citizen.
And then she convinces everybody and pledge allegiance to the flag!
Seriously…watch it…

When [...]

Good lord…

So if you desert you should die? I understand being brought up on charges if you leave and then lie about it, which is possible what’s going on here, but the last time I heard anything about a court martial for deserting, the punishment didn’t include death.
There are few things I hate, but this [...]

Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani openly questioned the validity of the elections today and this is the result…

(h/t: Daily Dish)