Robert Reich, in the course of his “Tax the wealthy, keep everyone healthy” piece for Salon.com, addresses the myth that OMG if we tax the people who prop up our economy they’re going to go Galt on us eeeeeeek!

There’s another word for it: fair. According to the most recent data (for 2007), the best-off 1 percent of American households take home about 20 percent of total income —

Mike Stark trapped Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) in a phone booth outside the Ways & Means Committee, then called me and we waited. Eventually, he had to come out.

I wanted to talk to him because he’s recently gone on record saying he won’t vote for the House health care bill because Medicare rates are set too low for North Dakota providers.

Workers and retirees have suspected for years that companies often use bankruptcy as an excuse to cheat retirees out of their promised benefits. Now, three unions say that’s exactly what the U.S. Treasury Department is doing to tens of thousands of General Motors (GM) retirees.

a Chairman Henry Waxman today released Chairman’s amendments to the tri-committeed House bill on health care reform. In addition to the usual technical fixes, Waxman’s substitute contains improvements designed to lower costs and improve the cost-efficiency of both Medicare and the public plan.

Feinstein’s sense of personal entitlement with regard to her job as a US Senator seems to be without limit, and her willingness to make decisions based on what benefits her personally could doom meaningful health reform for all of us.

What happens when you smack a bully in the face? They cry like babies.

Here’s the letter to Rangel, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee [pdf]. There are no caveats to their support.

Major League Baseball invited negro lefty Barack Reggie-Willy Obama to throw out first pitch at the All Star Game Tuesday night but Obama threw them a curve, canceled the game, declared martial law, and forced everyone in the stands to listen to a three hour speech…

Shortly before the list of 50 names was “leaked” yesterday, nyceve and I were talking with Jerrold Nadler at length about the mysterious internal whip count list that was rumored to exist. I asked Nadler in the video above what exactly it was that they’d whipped on:

JH: The fifty members who have committed to vote against anything that doesn’t have a public option.