Bill Cosby:

I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama. During President Obama’s speech on the status of health care reform, some members of congress engaged in a public display of disrespect. While one Representative hurled the now infamous “you lie” insult at the President, others made their lack of interest known by exhibiting rude behavior such as deliberately yawning and sending text

Obama is about to cancel the “anti-Iran” missile (non)shield in Eastern Europe. Good!

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Michael Medved is even more of a douche than his mustache suggests.

I’d excitedly set my TiVo to catch Tom DeLay make his lightfooted debut on “Dancing with the Stars” on Monday, September 21. But now Tom’s terpsichorean triumph maybe, um delayed because of stress fracture in foot. The toe tapper tweeted:

What would it take to pull Senator Snowe’s trigger to create a public option? In Massachusetts, which has a insurance purchase mandate and exchange just like the one Congress is considering, but not public option, insurance rates are set to rise again, by at least 10 percent next year. Bang.

WaPo has a great article about the Pecora Commission today. In it there is speculation about where this generation’s answer to Ferdinand Pecora will come from.

One possibility is that such a character could come out of the 10-member Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was set up by Congress in July to investigate various aspects of the current crisis.

Ezra has posted the CBO’s initial estimates on the costs of MaxTax–some of the assumptions for which seem to pretend that insurance companies will not react in any way to the new rules imposed by MaxTax.

The Atlantic’s list fetish.

The Baucus bill claims insurance companies couldn’t turn you down because of age or previous condition, but what if they had a quota for how many people they’d take?