Some of the documents long FOIAed from gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie’s tenure as New Jersey’s former U.S. Attorney have been released. And they don’t have good news for Christie.

POP (Public Option Please), our health care reform advocacy campaign, is announcing an arts contest. Inspired by artists behind the successful “Manifest Hope” project, the effort is designed to provide a vehicle for artists to help reframe the debate surrounding health care. Whereas Congress is focused on bending cost curves and protecting insurance company profits, [...]

Melissa Bean feels sorry for the poor national banks that have to comply with all those complicated state laws protecting consumers. She couldn’t care less about the citizens who are making the largest purchase of their lives.

• We should all be very grateful to President Snowe.
• Very strange.
• Why is the word ‘tries’ in this headline?
• Good.
• Sign of the times.
• GOP! GOP! GOP!
• Time for a sternly worded letter.

Psychosis, that are exciting and new — come aboard, they’re profiling you…..the Loathe Boat.

Indigenous with special guest Chris Duarte – Scufflin’.

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I loved Brendan Mullen, I loved how he changed our world. he will be sadly missed. And during the process of seeing him pass yesterday with his beloved wife Kateri, his friend of 32 yrs/bandmate Steve and his cousin Naill, I saw as well true compassion from the doctors and nurses in the ICU, I [...]

  Robert Wexler, the “Fire Breathing Liberal” may be on the cusp of resigning his seat in Congress. From Post On Politics:   U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, will resign from Congress to take a “public policy position,” several Democratic sources said today. “He called. He is going to resign….He told me that he [...]

There’s been a lot of levity today about the inept ridiculousness of the RNC’s new website, including the fact that passwords and administrator instructions were exposed, but I think everyone who’s chuckling now has completely forgotten the GOP’s twin penchants for A) Playing the victim, and B) Disavowing all responsibility for any errors/mistakes/lies/epic fails/entire states bursting into flames and falling into the sea.

Kent Conrad’s talking point against the public option tied to Medicare rates is that it would destroy the health care system in his state of North Dakota. He’s said this before, in interviews with Ezra Klein among others. And he always makes this point, one of the silliest I’ve ever heard from a Senator, which [...]