In comments today on a conference call from Families USA, Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus worked the other side of the yo-yo. Baucus, who voted against two public option amendments in committee, told reporters that some version of the policy remains alive in negotiations on a merged bill – but what form that will take is still up in the air.

Nancy Pelosi is planning to trap fiscally conservative Democrats into living up to their own rhetoric by presenting options on bills that cost less when MORE reform is administered.

Why has this changed? Roger Hickey believes that moderate Democrats are starting to rethink their opposition based on political realities.

The looming scandals that we’ve been expecting to break on the Christie front are beginning to break.

Bring them home. A roadside bomb killed four Fort Carson soldiers in Afghanistan last week, pushing the number of casualties from the post to 12 this month, one of the deadliest months since fighting began there in 2001. The soldiers killed Thursday in Kandahar province were assigned to patrol routes to find and destroy bombs, [...]

John Stossel’s first day at FoxNews…yeah, about as intellectually dishonest as you’d guess.

New videos from Grouper and Grand Archives.

Not content with cornering the market on racial prejudice, now the South Carolina GOP “schmears” the Jews.

Racist Louisiana justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell

The Obama administration indicated a change in law enforcement priorities today, announcing that it will focus on prosecution of drug trafficking laws when state laws are also violated. This may be good news for medical marijuana dispensaries which comply with their state’s laws.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Robert Greenwald described his latest film, Rethink Afghanistan, as a way to ask “fundamental core questions:” “The argument we make in the film is that there are a lot of unanswered questions about the war: How many troops? What’s the cost in lives and treasure?” says Greenwald. [...]

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Americans dramatically prefer a Democratic-votes-only bill with a public option compared to bipartisan bill without one.