Bad Max is asking some middle class families to pay 31% of their income to his health insurance donors–more than they pay to the Federal government.

Josh Marshall: “Am I the only one who thinks that if the Dems pass a bill with mandates and subsidies for poor and moderate income people to purchase it but no public option or competition with the insurers, that it will be pretty much a catastrophe for the Democrats in political terms?”

Continuing to open yap and insert ass, the random wingnutty Obama school speech idiocy continues: After reading the text on Monday, even Jim Greer, the Florida Republican Party chairman who last week accused the president of seeking to use the speech to foist “socialist ideology” on schoolchildren, said he could find nothing to criticize in its text. “In its current form, it’s fine,” Mr. Greer said in an interview. “But it remains to be seen if it’s the speech he’s going to give.”

Congratulations, Floridian Goopers. Your leader is an asshat.

The subtext, the non-existent subtext, of Obama’s speech to school children.

Featuring new videos from the Igor Prado Band w/ Lynwood Slim and How About Thank You from Bonnie Prince Billy.

“Excuse me, may I have some more . . . coverage, please?”

All I can say is stay the hell away from my kids.

On Labor Day it is important to remember why we have a Labor Day. It is to celebrate the work of the nation and the Labor Movement.

Two of Obama’s labor nominees, Patricia Smith for Department of Labor Solicitor and Lorelei Boylan to run the Wage and Hour division, are stuck in the Senate because of Senator Mike Enzi’s obstructionism.