Our financial elites shipped the jobs out. Now they wonder why there isn’t any consumer activity. Duh.

The health care debate is the contest between what Hazlitt called the Love of Liberty, which is the love of others, and the Love of Power, which is the love of ourselves. Reform won’t happen until the battle is framed as that way.

The Times gives us a disturbing piece on Tom Dashle, who secretly advises President Obama on health reform while serving as a highly paid political consultant to the health care and insurance industries. No wonder the White House is losing credibility with the American public.

Following up on Henry Waxman’s attempt to gather information, Jello Jay has started seeking info on the insurance industry as well.

The town hall protesters are a symptom of something very dangerous of a long tradition of extreme right wing American militancy that, should it be allowed to once again flourish unchecked, will make the misdeeds of Timothy McVeigh pale into insignificance

Health Care, Afghanistan, and more.

Tonight’s cartoon is the 1965 Oscar winning The Pink Phink starring The Pink Panther.

What’s on your mind?

Gorilla-haired scold Brent Bozell likes to think about teenagers having hot hot sex, gyrating sensuously, insistently to the pounding rhythms of popular music. That’s what Brent Bozell is into!

and Marc Ambinder

ZOMG. Florida’s governor, the oh-so-happily-married Charlie Crist, told a group real estate agents in Orlando that he prayed to God that Florida wouldn’t experience hurricanes, and God granted the request.

Crist explained that before his election in 2006, the state experience a total of eight hurricans in 2004 and 2005. Then he took a trip to Jerusalem in 2007 and placed a note in the western in the Western Wall which read:

Dear God, please protect our Florida from storms and other difficulties. Charlie.

God listened then and has kept listening, since Crist has sent the sam nots via friends each year since.