We launched the FDL News Desk, which is already filled with a bunch of great posts on a great variety of topics—many of which contain a few extra points of information and analysis I don’t think you’ll find anywhere else. Yet, try as he might, David Dayen doesn’t get to everything, so he’s been finishing his days with The Roundup, which has a wealth of links to all kinds of stories. It’s the sort of post that might not make it to the front page very often, but it is full of good info, so I urge you to check it out.
Also, Jon Walker has been rocking out and wonking out on the progress of health care reform every day on what has now extra-super-officially been rechristened FDL Action. Jon has this topic down like few others, so he catches all kinds of little things a lot of other people miss. Late in the day, Jon does a recap of some of the important health care news that he and others around FDL have posted on that day.
And, though this has been going on for a while now, I would be remiss not to also draw your attention to the Daily Health Care News Roundup that Jason Rosenbaum pulls together everyday and posts at The Seminal. It is an exceptionally well-researched summary of the major health care news and opinion found that morning in old and new media. If you care about this issue, it is kind of indispensable.
Finally, to wrap up this shameless bout of self-promotion, Rachel Maddow warmed my heart last night with her shout-out to FDL in her show’s intro. It is just a short mention, but it is about an important topic on which Jane and others here were really out in front: If there are 60 Senators who caucus with the Democrats, and 52 or 53 who are on record as supporting the public option, then, when we hear someone complain about “getting to sixty votes” on a bill with a real public option, what that prognosticator is really saying is that he or she thinks some Democrat is going to vote with the Republicans on whether to filibuster a health care bill. As Rachel points out, that would be unprecedented. Much of the establishment media is content with parroting what the Majority Leader and the White House would have you believe; it is stupid, and it is wrong. And, finally this week, we have started to see others start to understand that. It is very exciting to watch a meme shift before your eyes. . . especially when you are part of changing it. So, everybody in this community, take a bow. . . and then sign the petition at the bottom of this post!
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And, as we used to say about Dan Froomkin when he was imprisoned at the WaPo, Rachel Maddow is “one of us.”
zed!
Aw, crap! Missed by that much!
Jane has been way out on front on the public option for months and again now on the Democratic filibuster. Very good to hear her work acknowledged. Great thanks to Rachel for her coverage.
*bows*
Signed Tuesday.
Rachel and now on Democracy Now! Way to go Jane.
Time after time, the ProgBlogs have been right on the screws. Let no one say Jane Hamsher didn’t have this thing read well in advance, and that FDL did not have a forward-looking solution at hand, whether it comes to pass or not.
Democrats court EDIT: defeat, because it is in out blood. Transfusions are indicated.
pOPPY just called Rachel,and Keith…sick puppies
lets send POPPY the Aricept stat
I’ll remember that, 41, the next time someone brings up Willie Horton.
lee atwater
poppy= sick poppy/puppy
FDL is the bestest blog around !
signed t’other day !
The whole Bushie family is messed up. So DON’T CRY FOR ME YOU TEXAS TWIT! Oh those neo-con bullies, they always play victim when they are not being worshiped.
Lots of good things happening around here, but I always get lost!
They can dish it out , but they sure can’t take it
So then if Harry lets a Democrat side with the GOP on this then Harry gets the Prize Weakest Senate Majority leader ever.
Of course Harry could boost his son’s political career and put the best version of the public option in the bill.
Lets see whats more important to him his son or money.
What why? has he seen what inbreeding has done to his family…talk about sick
I believe Harry has had that prize in hand for quite some time.
Enough reading to keep ya busy for hours ,lots of variety, intelligent factual posts and of course that all important snark
True but KO Rachel they don’t mention Poppy much its Poppy’s son not us who trashed Poppy’s legacy.
Reid the Younger has to hope that Nevada Republicans let Gibber the Fibber coast to the general election, because if he’s up against former Judge Brian Sandoval he’s sunk.
What snark?
dementia swirled in with ordinary sociopathy
Plus debate smart reasoned fierce sometimes a feud but hey we are all human.
Ya ,right ,how silly of me !
Whats your take on the situation and the odds for Harry and son in Nevada?
poppys program
1000 points of BLIGHT
Poppy’s legacy wasn’t much to start with. It includes things like he got insulted by Manuel Noriega, invaded Panama to teach him a lesson and field test some of his and Ronnie’s expensive new military hardware. Spent a billion dollars in the process and bulldozed nearly a thousand Panamanians into mass graves to prove we are the better country. Good times.
been excoriated more than once for my views
dementia do you really think so?
Aw, you can squeeze a lot more than that into the Astrodome.
Oh ,that Bush !
The one that came between Reagan and Clinton
as Babs sez….tosh not to worry your beautiful mind
Don’t forget how he declared war on broccoli, his presidential library must be a treasure trove.
oh yea…Poppy needs to get to a nursing home or have a brain transplant
Then she went on to say something like, “You people never had it so good.”
hehehehehehehe
True but Iraq was a success at least in Poppy’s book. Until his son came along and said it wasn’t.
That international coalition Poppy built to invade his son didn’t need it. Poppy’s leaving Iraq and not sending troops in his son did the opposite.
Now then Poppy turned out to be right about everything his son did different and being right is a good feeling except when your son is your biggest critic. KO and Rachel have never done anything said anything about Poppy that his son has not said or done worse.
We all have and still we come back.
cause he has drain bramge.
His son has so much to look forward to then too bad he restricted stem cell research.
The second Gulf war was really Poppy’s fault for not publishing a pop-up edition of his memoir.
oh yea….and Babs again isnt crazy about shrub either iirc
Whats our next target after healthcare ending the war a new job stimulus or both?
yah and none of dem boooshies have heartz
poppy can go fuck himself and so can his son.
She did sic Billy Graham on his impertinent ass. Now that’s some junk yard dog to have in your kennel.
Time for the Obama Death Panel for him !
RRRAAAWWW!!!111
Pop up and scratch and sniff for the Chimp’s book I hear the Turd Blossom scent will be 100% real!
i believe the term is Cheney himself….g
Like Sarahs screed
Maybe Poppy was a tad grouchy ,because his Depends needed to be changed
Babs is not thrilled with her first born but greater failure has never been born of Woman!
lol……..hahahahahaha
mebbe Babs bought the wrong size?
all the boooshies and Chain knees need to exit PUBLIC LIFE.
Or put ‘em on backwards.
Calling it a night, splendid evening to all.
No-can-do.
Like bank robbers who revisit the scene of the crime, wondering if they left prints or dropped a cigarette butt, they have to mind the store.
Sure but the scent of the Meth Capital of Alaska, poopy diapers and dead moose might be worse than the smell of Turd Blossom’s flop sweat after McCain “the math ” turned out to be wrong.
Evening RF !
Signing off myself !
Nite all!
Plus Lizzie (Borden) Cheney is learning her chops. Nice that Wingnut Welfare includes a hatchet-jobs program.
My vocabulary about that slunk went well past that which would get me thrown in FDL jail months ago.
Suffice: Like villainous bottom-dweller, like wretched daughter.
nite,nite ratty
yes goodnight to all…wishin Kobe Hamsher and mom all the best healing vibes>>>>>>>>>
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Hello all my fellow FDL’ers –I’m just arriving. Still here? and what do you think about Rachel Maddow’s show last night, and tonight?
Hey Chris!
Pretty cool what Rachel did. When you have nothing to gain from pulling your punches… Smiling through it won’t get weasels like Tim Phillips anything but pats-on-the-back from his fellow travelers, and she articulated what a large swath of the voters know – these cretins are profiteers and slimeballs.
And she did a terrific number on him tonight.
Newt, I heart you! And if we were on gmail I’d have a great choice of emoiticons!
I cried tonight.
What happened to Campaign Silo? The tab does not display on the home page…
Your #68 says what no emoticon could.
She is in the battle now. Her legendary Sunday Morning smackdown of Dick Armey here and here was just the beginning.
What a gal.
The Campaign Silo has been rechristened FDL Action.
You and me, Newt. I’m there for you, me and Rachel!
Yeah, she has spent a year-plus polishing and getting her TV chops – it was time to take them out for more than a test-drive.
And she can drive.
Of course she has a good point.
The part she misses is what will actually be in the final bill that gets voted on. Unfortunately, that part of this game is being worked out far less democratically by Harry Reid, likely under direction from the WH. If by some miracle the final bill has a robust public option, I’ll be quite shocked, but also quite happy. The lack of a strong PO/govt run plan makes moving back to the US extremely risky for me as a I have a pre-existing condition.
it seems pretty clear rachael and or staff uses firedoglake as one of her sources and she is making certain we get traffic for the research that’s done here
rachael maddow is a firedog!!!
if I’m right then one day I beleive she will reveal her super secret handle
it seams to me rachael is informing constituents what is possible and she is laying the ground work for unseating those people who might be responsible for doing corporate work rather then the people’s work
she laid down the guantlet right there and she is daring democrats who might have impeded the public option, she’s daring them because she’s gonna go after them and she’s telling them blogs will hold their office to account for what they do (and do not do)
Rachael is one smart woman. Someone (M Moore?) mentioned we ought to boycott the health industry but if we stopped paying our premiums that’s when we would probably need our insurance. I was watching CNN talking about breast cancer donations right now and was thinking maybe we should boycott donating to Cancer, alzheimer, etc, organizations/foundations. Are they the very industry fighting the public option? What do you think?
Sunshine,
Wrong target – collateral damage! The non-profits and foundations such as Susan Komen breast cancer, et al, are not your/our enemy.
Our enemy is private health insurers (sic) because they have medical loss rates that are a crime against humanity. Why should we pay 20-30% vigorish to insurance firms?