Saturday Update: Baucus now says he’ll vote for her. Slow learner, isn’t he?
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From, appropriately, Crooks and Liars:
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Thursday he hasn’t made up his mind on whether he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.
Baucus all summer has pissed off progressives on and off Capitol Hill by working to [...]
From Nobel winner Paul Krugman at the New York Times, in his column helping discredit all the lies being told by insurance companies and right wingers:
“Right-wing opponents of reform would have you believe that President Obama is a wild-eyed socialist, attacking the free market. But unregulated markets don’t work for health care — never have, [...]
Hate talk is nothing new. Here’s the downside of covering radio — at least according to this Huffington Post blog.
All you have to do to get Senate seniority and a committee chairmanship is to sit on your dead ass long enough. Like, say, Monatana’s hopeless Max “No Headroom” Baucus.
The good news: Now some Senate Democrats are suggesting taking the gavel away from human roadblocks/dead weight like insuarance-industry slut Baucus.
That’s the best news out of [...]
Old hag Rep. Virginia “Not A” Foxx (R-NC) — sorry about the sexism, but she truly fits and merits the description — stated on the floor of the House that the Republicans’ health care reform legislation, unlike that of the Democrats, would not put seniors “to death.” Besides being a reprehensible accusation, her words are [...]
Neb. nominal Democratic Senator Ben “Halfwit” Nelson says he hasn’t decided whether or not he’ll vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor.
An anxious nation awaits this self-proclaimed power broker’s edict from Olympus.
BTW, look up the word “schmuck” in the dictionary, and you might well see Nelson’s picture.
Sourpuss/cynic H.L. Mencken is one of my journalistic heroes, and blogger Steve Pizzo offers this fine example of the late newspaperman’s writing about pols:
“The government consists of a gang of individuals exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent [...]
The New York Times is reporting that the all-too-powerful Senate Finance Committee has tossed the idea of taxing the very wealthy for national health insurance. And, to make things worse, it’s about to drop the public option in favor of the stupid, hasn’t-worked “co-op” plan being pushed by Sen. Kent “I’m Not Robert” Conrad:
“Already, the [...]
“New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit.”
The political comic’s really been on a roll on HBO:
“When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism? Ask not what you could do for your country, ask [...]
If you had any doubts about the slatternly behavior of cable-news outfits, CNN and MSNBC’s (and Fox, of course) behavior last week, giving the “Birthers” all that air time last week , surely erased them. My new Huffington (Media) Post blog on this latest disgraceful behavior is here.
Did cable news kill Walter Cronkite?