John Conyers has been a healthcare hero for his entire career.  He has asked NYCEve and me to speak before Democratic House and staff members today at 3pm on the Hill.  I’ll be talking about the whip count project because people here got on the phones and let their members of Congress know that health care is something that is important to them, an fiery rhetoric that ultimately succumbs to the demands of a political machine just won’t cut it this time.

Don’t be bought off with convincing smoke signals. Keep those calls coming, because they’re working.

Roman Catholic members of Congress in both parties may want to check out the new papal encyclical. Republicans in particular may be surprised to learn that there’s more to charity than giving out scraps — it’s about ruling with justice. Minority Leader Boehner might want to take notes.

• Well, yeah.
• They should’ve listened to Krugman the first time.
• No one could’ve predicted…
• Polling the recovery.
• Some encouraging signs with health care reform. 
• Looks like someone got to Rahm.
• Another Club for Growth candidate going nowhere.
• Oops.

Bill O’Reilly, jealous much?

The Hello Sequence – Everyone Knows Everyone.

What’s on your mind?

Okay, yes I am being sexist. And If a guy wrote the same headline, I would still laugh. Maybe that’s why some conservative guy said I looked liked “one of those bloodsucking vampires” in a comment on some blog. All the grrls in the Microwave Coven laughed at that one.

Will Gonzo teach his students useful techniques for subverting democracy and the rule of law, or will he just spend 3-4 hours a week telling them that he doesn’t remember anything? Will his exams include a True/False/I Don’t Recall section? Will students be graded on how much course material they can forget?

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health care reform bill.

In a letter released this afternoon, Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) expressed “alarm” and “dismay” at the remarks by Rahm Emanuel, published in the Wall Street Journal, that signaled an openness to a “trigger” that would indefinitely delay implementation of a public option in any health care overhaul.

We activists have years to defeat corporatism: single payer is one front in that very long war. Many of the indigent patients I’ve seen these last years – like many of the other 40 million uninsured Americans – will perish during that long war. With a robust public option this year, most of these patients will survive.