The White House is considering extending unemployment benefits and measures to help job creation, none of them likely to make much difference, because they people advising Obama and the Senators who limit the options arent’ held accountable for where we are.

A few days ago, I wrote that the CBO screwed up Ron Wyden’s amendment by failing to fully score it, after telling Wyden that they had. As a result, Max Baucus wouldn’t let it come up for a vote on the Senate Finance Committee. Wyden is now threatening to vote against the entire bill, which could keep the Senate Finance Committee from reporting one.

So what actually happened?

The usual health wonks have been busy explaining the importance of the proposed health insurance exhcanges, and it’s been helpful to get some attention on how they should be designed to avoid failure. But is it enough?

I realize America’s Concern Troll is usually Attaturk’s beat, but Richard Cohen’s column today is truly a masterpiece of neo-con stupid.

Marshall Ganz, who designed the field-organizer and volunteer training systems for the Obama campaign, recently told Laura Flanders that people have to be willing to take to the streets and engage in this kind of civil disobedience before health care reform will turn into a transformational movement.

What do you think?

The Senate Finance Committee vote has been pushed back until next week, ostensibly so the CBO can come up with a final score. But it may have more to do with the fact that they don’t have the votes. Jay Rockefeller made an impassioned speech last week that indicated he’s probably a “no” vote on the Baucus bill, and now it looks like Ron Wyden might be in that column too. Since Baucus can only lose one Democrat and still get something through a committee with 13 Democrats and 10 Republicans, he has to bring one of them back on the reservation.

The Obama Administration boasts that it did not have a big press conference to announce the arrest of Najibullah Zazi. But it does so in one article of several designed to boast of Obama’s approach to terrorism.

If a public option has worked for my disease for the last 36 years, why aren’t more Americans clamoring for the same health security I have? Maybe it’s because they’ve never heard of it.

• They should’ve listened to Krugman.
• Uh, isn’t that like, their job?
• Here comes the H1N1 vaccine.
• MC Steele: those doctors don’t know jack.
• So little to show for all those Teabaggings.
• No matter what Faux News says.
• Southern Republicans: still classy!

Right-wingers too literal to be fundamentalists, decide to re-write the Bible.