If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, then that makes Sean Hannity a scoundrel. For the last few years, Hannity has been promoting “Freedom Concerts” that promise to give college scholarships to the children of killed soldiers and payments to wounded and disabled troops. Musicians who perform at the concerts volunteer their services [...]
It seems like I could almost just repeat the same article every day to describe happenings in the debate around health care reform:
As usual, today the Dems announced a new procedural tactic to get health care reform passed. The GOP immediately attacked it as unconstitutional, unprecedented, unclean, unholy, and the end of civilization as we [...]
Dana Milbank has a scathing review of Karl “Bush’s Brain” Rove’s new book in the Washington Post. Apparently Rove misses being the master of doublespeak, and so is rewriting the history of the Bush administration. Here are some quotes from Rove’s book:
“Did Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not.”
“The president never authorized torture. He did [...]
The South Dakota legislature tries to legislate reality, and fails big time. House Concurrent Resolution No. 1009 calls “for the balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota”, but then proceeds with a list the standard anti-climate-change talking points.
For example, did you know that “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but [...]
Rachel Maddow with some of the best coverage of health care reform I’ve seen:
Note that this is a followup to this video.
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© Tom Toles
Not only was Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) singlehandedly blocking unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, he also put a hold on all of Obama’s nominees last week. The Senate ground to a halt, with the economy following closely. This is what some politicians will do in the name of partisan bickering.
The only [...]
The Washington Post published a long op-ed piece by Senator Orrin Hatch, titled “Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the democratic process”. We know the drill — he calls budget reconciliation an “arcane budget procedure” that Obama wants to use to “ram through” a bill that does those nasty things you’ve heard [...]
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Republicans are having a nuclear meltdown about Democrats using the budget reconciliation process to pass health care reform.
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote a letter to Obama this week, urging him to rule out the possibility, saying:
The use of expedited reconciliation process to push through more dramatic changes to a health care bill of such size, [...]
Sunday, February 21, 2010
A reader forwarded this email that has been making the rounds of the tinfoil hat crowd:
Does this photo of President Obama in the Oval Office convey anything to you about his attitude? Would you speak with the Chief of Staff, your Chief Economic Adviser, and your Senior Adviser with your feet up on the Resolute [...]
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
In the last presidential election, Dubya was so toxic that the Republicans didn’t even want him to come speak at their national convention. But I guess Mitt Romney has decided to rehabilitate him. In a speech yesterday at the CPAC convention, Romney said:
I am convinced that history will judge President Bush far more kindly — [...]
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Less than two weeks ago, Sarah Palin was the keynote speaker at the “national tea party conference”, a conference that seemed primarily designed to make money for its organizer. But that didn’t stop her from saying things like “America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this.” She also praised the [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
© Gary Varvel
The health insurance industry is blaming rising premiums on the increased cost of health care, but for the majority of large health insurers the percentage actually spent on health care went down, while the percentage spent on administrative expenses and profits went up.
The five largest U.S. health insurance companies sailed through the worst [...]
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