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.

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.

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,…

A few weeks ago, we wrote that whatever the outcome of the Democratic Primary, Hillary Clinton's candidacy helped start a conversation about sexism. Well that conversation is on the front page of the New York Times this morning, with a discussion of the possibly sexist way Clinton was covered by cable news networks…

Yesterday on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, DNC chairman Howard Dean commented on the rampant sexism in media coverage. "There has been an enormous amount of sexism in this campaign on the part of the media," he stated. "Major networks have featured outrageous comments that… if the words were reversed, and they…

Over the weekend I watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians for the first time, and watching Bruce Jenner's resigned, paralyzed-looking face spliced up against scenes of his nine-year-old skipping around the household stripper pole to observe their elder sisters' trip to the Mexican estate of Girls Gone Wild founder…