Pick me a Weiner?
OK, Cong. Anthony Weiner, one of the heroes in the health-care debate. We should give second-payer a second look, he says in HuffPost:
“If Medicare has been such a success, why not extend it? Why not have single-payer plans for 55 year olds? Why not have one for young citizens who just [...]
“He’s saying he’s really upset with the Obama Administration about the C.I.A. torture probe. He said he can’t stand it. He said it’s a huge mistake and we shouldn’t be doing it. And then he went back to his mountain fortress to create a mate for his monster.”
He has lots more “dopes” to deal with than Muhammad Ali ever did.
I name at least four — right-wing radio, Fox News, Fox Business and now, CNBC, in my new “gripping, thought-provoking” Huffington Post blog.
“Bill Maher asked me on his show last week if America is still a great nation. I should have said it’s the greatest show on earth. Forget what you learned in civics about the Founding Fathers — we’re the children of Barnum and Bailey, our founding con men.”
He was referring to right-wing talk radio, which [...]
Guess what I just learned to do — button my own jacket!
“Glenn Beck Gets First Scalp,” says the headline at Huffington Post in a story about Obama’s “Green Czar,” Van Jones, resigning because his leftist past was being hammered by Rupert’s favorite TV pinhead.
Now, if Glenn-Boy would get his first brain, that’d make for [...]
“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you’re going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”
That’s the intro to a funny piece by James Moore (“Bush’s Brain”) about [...]
Is it any wonder some wingnut Republicans — is there any other kind these days? — are concerned about Obama’s stay-in-school, study-harder speech to school kids next week and want to stop students from hearing it?
The last thing that party needs is educated people. It might dilute their gene pool.
The mayor of right-wing crackpot Glenn Beck’s home town of Mount Vernon, Wash., says he’ll give Glenn the key to the city this month. Get those overripe tomatoes ready — or so goes the suggestion in my latest HuffPost epic. It’s getting lots of Comment. In fact, it’s the top-rated HuffPost blog today (Most Comments [...]
Earlier today, MSNBC’s Carlos Watson hosted Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) and CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo for a discussion on health care.
At one point, Bartiromo was critical of the government-managed health care system in the United Kingdom. “How do I know the quality [of health care in the United States] is not going to suffer” with [...]
A must-read: Paul Krugman’s NYT column about Tricky Dick’s plan, and how lobbysists (also tricky, also dicks) have since become a huge obstacle to any genuine reform. He says it’ll take years of “siege warfare” to get rid of these cash-dispensing leeches.