Hell and high water
I just watched W and Laura depart the White House on Marine 1 for their last trip to Camp David. I'm watching MSNBC, you know the station that is often characterized as being "liberal". Contessa...
View ArticleBreaking: Stolen transcript from Fox Boardroom. Tea & Cream.
ROGER: Well, we all know why we're here. We have a situation. GLENN: I fear for our freedom, Roger. ROGER: We all do, Glenn. Greta, you read the Daily Cuss today. What's your assessment? GRETA: They...
View ArticleMedicare for all will mean the death of independent practice
A couple of diaries on the Rec List right now are focused on the complex but critically important topic of health system reform. In Chasm grows between Washington and everyone else on healthcare by...
View ArticleSEIU ads added without consent to DKos health reform diaries, UPDATED with poll
Recently, we've seen SEIU banner ads at the end of many DKos diaries concerning health care reform. I suspect that most people here assume that diarists either have been adding these, or agreed to have...
View ArticleTom Tancredo is a disgrace. Updated with DeLay.
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado is a xenophobic, racist bigot. And the sun rose in the east this morning. Tancredo hates immigrants, he thinks Latinos are to blame for all that ails us, and he...
View ArticleA physician "comes out".
I was inspired by the always excellent nyceve and her diary that's been sitting atop the Rec List all afternoon to write a detailed comment in response. My comment evolved into something much more --...
View ArticleIs health care a right? THE ? for Senators & Reps on July 4!
Will you support a public option, available to everyone, on day one? It's a great question. It's an important question. But it's a political question, and political questions beget political answers....
View ArticleGay sailor murdered on base, DADT prevented stalking report that might have...
As reported today in Think Progress, (T)he body of openly gay Seaman August Provost was discovered in a guard shack at Camp Pendelton... According to Provost’s sister, he had recently complained to his...
View ArticleMy local paper is a one-syllable piece of _ _ _ _ !!!!
I always shudder a little before sitting down with my morning java and the local paper. Another dismembered body discovered buried in the local dirt? Check. More genuine grief over the latest DUI...
View ArticleWe need a town hall holiday. Now.
There should no longer be any doubt that the town hall concept has been systematically subverted and is now increasingly under mob rule. They have become excuses for the vituperative expression of...
View ArticleCRITICAL: help Sen. Bingaman save the Public Option
The front page headline in today's Albuquerque Journal was: Bingaman: 'Public Option' on the Ropes Sen. Bingaman is one of the three Dems on the Sen. Finance "Gang of Six", and the only one to declare...
View ArticleOh, my President. What are you doing?
You warned us from the beginning not to expect too much. You told us that you were a centrist. OK, we said. You are intelligent, you understand constitutional law, you are inspiring, you speak of real...
View ArticleTranslation: "You're dead."
We have come to know the Courage Campaign because of their incredible work on behalf of marriage equality and repeal of Prop 8 in California. But they are a broad-based progressive organization, and...
View ArticleLiveblog transcript of the OFA Obama webcast on HCR
Going on now here, started at 2:30 EDT. Continuous updates below the fold. Will we see a commitment to real reform? THAT is the question. This is also being live-blogged from the front page here, so...
View ArticleA public vote on the Public Option at Bingaman's town hall! Updates: news...
New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, one of the three Democrats on the Senate Finance "Gang of 6", held a town hall in Albuquerque this afternoon. It was a model of how a town hall should work in a...
View ArticleOK, I confess: I'm an unreasonable extremist of the far left!
It's no surprise that those who are opposed to real health system reform are doing what opponents of reform have always tried to do: marginalize proponents as extreme, unrealistic and unreasonable. We...
View ArticleHello!
A comment in a current Rec List diary on Chicago's losing the Olympic bid asked, "Can you just say hola?" followed by an ode to the Girl from Ipanema. Not speaking Portuguese, this use of the Spanish...
View ArticleHealth reform: a great way to ban abortions
In her most recent column, Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman writes: It is becoming obvious that just having a female reproductive system is a pre-existing condition in the health care...
View ArticleBeyond Moore: Moyers. Today. Pres Obama: PLEASE watch this.
Did you see this speech from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives? So why should any American citizen be kicked out of their homes in this cold weather? ... Don't leave your home. Because you...
View ArticleWe need a trigger!
Olympia Snowe wowed the Democratic universe yesterday by voting for the ulta-diluted Senate Finance health reform bill. She then promptly served notice that tomorrow is another day, and her vote may be...
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