Why Does SEIU’s Andy Stern Sound Like Rahm Emanuel?

By: emptywheel Thursday August 20, 2009 12:40 pm

Why does Andy Stern sound like he has been in the veal pen too long?

Mike Ross: Covering for His Big Money Donors, Yes; Covering the Uninsured, Not So Much

By: Jane Hamsher Thursday August 20, 2009 11:45 am

Mike Ross is full of shit. Twenty percent of his district lives in poverty, 21.8% have no insurance, and 25% are African American.  Instead of telling progressives that they should suck it up and accept a bad health care bill because it’s “politically imperative,” Bill Clinton should be using his Arkansas clout to kick Ross’s ass.

Jim DeMint’s Inspiration to Fight Obama’s “Socialized Medicine”: “The Andy Griffith Show”

By: Blue Texan Thursday August 20, 2009 10:30 am

Hard to know where to start. But one, there’s nothing quite so funny as Bush Republicans warning about trading freedom for security. And two, does DeMint realize that both Andy Griffith and Ron Howard are long-time Democratic activists who campaigned for the mean bully socialist liar Obama?

If Progressive Members of the House Think We’ll Accept Co-Ops as Public Plan, Think Again

By: Jane Hamsher Thursday August 20, 2009 9:00 am

Matt Taibbi says that Rahm Emanuel’s health care debacle could be to the Obama administration what the Iraq war was to George Bush.

He’s right.

Profiles from the US Health Care System: Mr. Baucus, Mr. Conrad, Care to Respond to This Grief-Stricken Family?

By: Eve (nyceve) Gittelson Thursday August 20, 2009 8:15 am

This is the reason we fight. Don’t give up, don’t get sidetracked, don’t be swayed, never forget. This is about people’s lives.

Crazy Pete Hoekstra (R-Blackwater)

By: emptywheel Thursday August 20, 2009 7:16 am

You know how Crazy Pete Hoekstra has led the chorus of those who claim Leon Panetta should never have briefed Congress on the secret assassination squads? To his credit, he’s doing it even now that Blackwater’s role has been revealed.

“I think there was a little more drama and intrigue than was warranted,” said Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee.

Um, yeah.

The Wind and the Lion: Ted Kennedy Mans Up to Mortality

By: bmaz Thursday August 20, 2009 6:02 am

Literally generations of politically active American citizens have been motivated to study and participate in the process by the men, and women, in the Kennedy family (I am one). The last of a kind is nearing the end, and he is thinking of his constituents until his last breath.

Early Morning Swim

By: Blue Texan Thursday August 20, 2009 4:36 am

Oh, the places they went

By: Attaturk Thursday August 20, 2009 1:30 am

Outsourcing assassination squads…allegedly what freedom is all about.

Late Late Night FDL: Diamonds and Gold

By: Eureka Springs Wednesday August 19, 2009 10:00 pm

Langhorne Slim stopped by Sun Studios.

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