Totally incoherent neocon nonsense from Jon Kyl and the zero-credibility Richard Perle in today’s WSJ.

We’ve been getting a lot of great feedback from FDL readers about what they’re hearing from the Hill on the public option. Here is a sample of the kind of info we’re getting.

Paul Krugman debunks both George Will and economist Greg Mankiw who argue not only that our current health care system is okay and and should be left alone but that a public plan would undermine the current system’s okay competitive outcomes. What competition?

Judge Denny Chin Sentenced Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison—the maximum sentence allowed—for creating the massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of people and institutions of millions of dollars.

It was a very thin folder.

US Constitution via kjd.

In a 5-4 decision, led by Justice Anthony Kennedy, SCOTUS reversed the Ricci case outright, preferring a full reversal to what was thought might be a middle ground compromise on liability versus Title VII grounds.

The full order is available for download here (PDF). The key language from Kennedy:Fear of litigation alone cannot justify the City’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who

There was no loud cheering by anybody but members of Congress when ACES passed. The idea that we can pass something that is nothing more than an insurance industry bailout, and everyone will applaud because “something” was done, is a pretty remote fantasy.

The ultimate test is going to be the functionality of an overhauled health care system.  If the GOP is marginally less unhappy and the whole thing sucks, I’m not sure history — or the electorate — will respond with kindness.

Last Friday’s news dump included the disturbing rumor that the Obama Administration is considering an executive order for indefinite detention of detainees is US custody.

Considering how opposed I was to this during the Bush years? It should be no shocker that I still think it’s craptastically unconstitutional nincompoopery.

• Change: working to restore the Honduran president.
• Sad, but true.
• Also, the sky is blue. 
• Palin-Romney 2012!
• But…but…the majority of the country is “pro-life.”
• Digby, on being a villager.
• More proof that Bill Ayes wrote Obama’s book.
• Willard fights the good fight for Big Insurance.

He’s been wilfully enabled up and down the line.