Political Irony

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 [...]

© 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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]