And it was written by a certain senator named Max Baucus. The plan included a national health care...
Category - Healthcare
Prediction
Take this for what it's worth. Over the next several months, Speaker Pelosi's approval ratings will...
Chris Matthews Is Utterly Clueless on Healthcare
I just overheard Matthews conflating "single-payer" with a "nationalized healthcare system."...
Health Insurance Denial Rates
A California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee study concluded: Claims denial...
It's My Fault, Too
I have to genuflect before Chris Bowers' snarky rant about single-payer advocacy. Nicely put, sir...
Willful Ignorance on the Public Option
The corporate media, and in this case George Stephanopoulos, are just being willfully ignorant...
The Camps
Ezra Klein lays out the White House camps on healthcare reform: The first camp could be called...
Joint Session Address Is Go
TPM is reporting: President Obama will address the country before a joint session of Congress on...
Aw Crap.
I just don't like the smell of this quote from Axelrod to ABC News: As to the fate of a government...
Mike Pence Is a Magnificent Idiot
Mike Pence completely contradicts himself on Morning Joe. Like always. "Republicans believe that in...
Drudge Link Trolling
For months now, Eric Boehlert at Media Matters has been documenting how Politico has been...
They're Hurting America
To paraphrase Bill Maher, yes, too many Americans are uninformed doofs. Here's the latest...
U.S.S. Constitution
Whoever shot this video tapped into a gold mine of Glenn Beck wingnuts all in one parking lot. Such...
Racist, yes. And a Bigtime A-hole.
There's a lot to be pissed about in this video of racist Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KKK) in which the she...
Worst Person
Maria Bartiromo. I didn't know Medicare was available. Sign me up, Maria. You corporate doof.
We Lack Discipline
Robert Reich: History is not destiny, and Democrats and progressives can yet enact meaningful...
President Obama and the Centrists
On Morning Joe, they were just referencing David Brooks' latest column in which he discusses how...
Wave Goodbye to the Gang of Six
Ezra Klein: Everyone I've spoken to in the Senate believes, strongly, that this process is about to...
Loaves and The Public Option
Jamison Foser makes an excellent point about the public option fight in Congress: If people who...
Compromising on Life & Death
Without falling into the "Obama should do X" trap and at the risk of joining the cacophony of...