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Nancy Pelosi To Push "Robust" Public Option In Healthcare Bill
Forget Harry Reid. His fifteen seconds of "fame" are over. Nancy Pelosi is the new heathcare reform It Pol, and she's thrown all her cards on the table: We need a "robust" public option in this bill. More »A Tale Of Two Op-Eds: Hillary Clinton Vs. Sarah Palin
Both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin wrote, and published, op-eds this morning. While Secretary Clinton argues that food security and agricultural stability is vital to national security in the Guardian, Palin pushes "drill baby drill" in the National Review. More »Liz Cheney's Keep America Safe Campaign Is Pro-Violence
Since when is working toward peaceful solutions a "radical" foreign policy? Liz Cheney argues Obama's tactics are "making the nation weaker." She's also pushing the "waterboarding isn't torture" lie, when we know it is. Give up, Cheney. [Politico, Vanity Fair]The Long Road Toward Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell
"For me, Don't Ask, Don't Tell isn't just an equality issue. It is also a national-security issue." In the aftermath of this weekend's National Equality March, the media examines the role of Don't Ask Don't Tell as a policy. More »Dear Pumas: Our Vaginas Are Not Registered To Vote!
Sarah Palin will not go away, and people like Amy Siskind think appealing to our ovaries will make women support her in 2012. Let me tell them something: basing our votes on identity is an idiotic strategy! More »Former Cigna Executive Says Health Care Reform Will Be a "Bailout" of the Insurance Industry
Wendell Potter, former health care executive: "We will be essentially paying a tax that will help support these insurance companies. It will be an enormous bailout of the health insurance industry." Partial transcript after the jump. More »Give Us Healthcare Or Prepare Us For Death!
Can the Senate save the public option? Perhaps - but only if the Evil Empire stops trying to strike back. An update on our current health care quagmire, after the jump. More »A Fireside Chat, This Was Not
Obama went for the media blitz yesterday morning, but it ended up as a bunch of sound and fury, signifying nothing. More »And The Health Care Band Played On
Over the weekend, Crystal Lee Sutton, labor activist and inspiration for the movie Norma Rae, died of cancer after struggling with her insurance company, which had delayed her treatment. So why is the current health care discussion focusing on abortion? More »The "You Lie" Heard Around The World
After Joe Wilson confused a public occasion with a movie theater and decided to make comments at the screen, the nation wondered what he would do next. Apologize? Ha! Fuck that shit - he will not be muzzled! More »GOP? STFU! Obama Is Not "Indoctrinating" Kids Into Socialism
"As far as I am concerned, this is not civics education - it gives the appearance of creating a cult of personality." What. The. Fuck. How did a speech asking students to work hard become a political clusterfuck? More »Barack Obama Is Plotting To Kill Women With Breast Cancer Death Panels
Women's Issues Are About to Torpedo Bob McDonnell's Campaign
The media spotlight is on gubernatorial hopeful Robert McDonnell who is currently launching his 2009 campaign for governor of Virginia. McDonnell finds himself in hot water for his 1989 thesis, which outlines a position hostile to women's interests and feminism. More »Dick Cheney Thinks Examining War Crimes Is The Same As Playing Politics
"We ask [the CIA] to do some very difficult things [...] — in this case, we had specific legal authority from the Justice Department." More »Michelle Obama Seen Wearing Shorts —Newsreel at 10
ZOMG! Michelle Obama has worn shorts in public. How will the other nations respect us now that they've seen our First Lady's knees?!!? More »Thank God: GOP About To Get Rahm-ed On Health Care
The front page of the Huffington Post this morning has exploded with a major headline announcing "The Breaking Point," but Plum Line writer Greg Sargent's paraphrase of Rahm Emanuel says it best: Bipartisanship is Dead. More »How Much Healthcare Can We Buy With A Trillion Bucks?
What Exactly Are We Arguing About Regarding This Health Care Bill?
After weeks of fighting over death panels and other assorted GOP lies, the Politico is confirming that the Obama Administration is now backing away from a public option in coverage. One question: What exactly is everyone fighting about? More »Sarah Palin Calls Out Death Eaters To Deal With Fake Death Panels
Whoa. This "death panel" thing formerly-important-fifteen-minutes-of-fame-over-no-longer-elected-official Sarah Palin describes seems really scary. She even mentions that poor little pimped-out Trig might have gone before one of these death panels! It's a good thing then that death panels don't exist! More »They Think They're Mad About Healthcare?