Is it time for a Howard Dean-led health care reform revolution? The Politico documents how Dean has come full circle, resuming the mantle of "party progressive." [Politico]

Senators Joe Lieberman and Olympia Snowe can rejoice: the public option and the Medicare buy-in are off the table. What will happen next? Howard Dean's soundbyte is to "kill the bill," but his actual stance is much more nuanced.

Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry was kicked out of a Virginia Town Hall meeting yesterday for screaming "baby killer" at Howard Dean. Not surprisingly, this stabber of baby dolls and enemy of women's rights is being disowned even by anti-choicers.

For some Americans, the push for health care reform seemed like the perfect time to get Howard Dean involved in national policy. Unfortunately, Barack Obama disagreed. But Dean's got something to say about how reforms are shaping up anyway.

In this extra-special edition of Crappy Hour, we - and by "we" I mean me myself and I - discuss John Ensign's Oedipal issues, sympathy for the devil (Palin, obviously), sex dreams, Iran, masturbation, Howard Dean and Roland Burris.

Howard Dean, who will probably still never live down The Scream, is sick of Senate members pandering to the worst instincts of the nation's health insurance companies rather than their constituents. And he's not shy about saying so.

• Sarah Palin gave an unsurprising speech at a "anti abortion banquet" last night, opining that women should carry their unwanted pregnancies to term, embryos should get rights and President Barack Obama sucks. [Associated Press]

Kathleen Sebelius is already having problems with her nomination and it's barely even Monday, while the Democrats struggle with ideological purity and the idea that having a majority is actually a good thing.

• Once upon a time in a universe far, far away, a group of supposely intelligent women decided that Barack Obama wasn't sexy enough for them. And thus the world was denied his image in a Harvard Law beefcake calendar. I guess we'll always have People. [Politico]
• Obama has told people he wants Lieberman to continue to…

Another day, another roadtrip, as the Washington Independent's personal Attackerman, Spencer Ackerman, joins me live from the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas. Topics discussed: Arianna Huffington's ability to channel the evil that is Karl Rove, race relations and the old-guard feminist movement in America,…