Fox has been shoveling shit on the White House since day one of the Obama Presidency, so why has this administration waited till October to call a spade a spade?

How scary is it that A) Mike Allen and I have the same wet dream, and B) It’s about Roger Ailes?

I need your help to name this new blog. I have a couple ideas that I’ll share, but I’m interested in hearing what you think FDL’s labor blog should be named.

Reporters need to stop quoting anonymous source for the swirl of competing claims about what the White House is/is not pushing on health reform.

I think the single greatest political disaster in store for Democrats over the issue of health care reform is not about policy, mandates, or taxes; it is about time. Americans for the most part do not know that they will be forced to wait for three years before reform really starts. A recent Kaiser Family [...]

And the yo-yo moves back up. TPM gets multiple sources confirming earlier reporting, which was denied at one point, that the President prefers the trigger option that would keep Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in the fold on an overall health care bill to a public option with an opt-out mechanism for the states, a version Harry [...]

Economist Jeff Madrick, director of policy research at The New School’s Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, is among several key speakers at next week’s Building the New Economy conference here in Washington, D.C. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard also are among keynote speakers. Here, Madrick shares with us why government involvement in the economy is essential to ensure a robust, successful nation.

Here’s some amusing video from the group “Billionaires for Wealthcare” as they crashed the AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) conference today. Pollster Bill McInturf initially took their mocking “thank you for all the good work you do” as a compliment, and then the group broke into song, a parody of “Tomorrow” from the musical Annie, [...]

Sam Stein and Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post say that Harry Reid is working the phone because he’s “just one or two Senate votes shy of having a filibuster-proof majority in favor of a public option for health insurance coverage with a provision allowing states to opt-out.” “One or two votes shy?” That means [...]

The negro doesn’t get the same mulligan as the Bush. Club rules.