On a conference call with reporters, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reiterated the President’s support for a controversial measure in the Senate health care bill that would ban undocumented immigrants from purchasing insurance coverage on the exchanges with their own money.

Sebelius was asked if she thought undocumented workers should be allowed on the exchange, and she replied, “The President has made it clear that he feels undocumented immigrants should be able to purchase health insurance in the private market, not on the exchange.”

The trigger is not a modification of the public option. It is not like a public option. It does not serve the same function as a public option. It is the same as simply having no public option at all.

The NY Post reports that some are suggesting JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon to replace current Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

A 400-pound car bomb explodes near lots of white people? That’s news!

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Of course, Lincoln is the only one up for reelection in 2010. Over their careers, Nelson and Lincoln have received in excess of a half million each, and Lieberman is well over a million.

“If we have to pay for the healthcare bill, we should pay for the war as well,” Obey told ABC News in an interview, “by having a war surtax.”

Matthew Hoh, the highest ranking U.S. official to resign over policy on Afghanistan, discusses the predicament of military activity in that country with Daniel Ellsberg.

[T]he “progressive block” was always just part of a larger and much more dynamic strategy, a firewall staked in the end zone at the beginning of the campaign (a perilous mix of metaphors, but I can’t think of a better way to say it). We’ve been working backwards from there, targeting Harry Reid and making it difficult for him to unload the public option without risking his own political future. And we’re not done, not by a long shot. We’ve been working diligently behind the scenes on things that nobody knows about yet, in anticipation of what is to come.

• Bring them home, Mr. President.
• Good thing the Democrats have 60 seats in the Senate.
• Heh: “the Senator from Aetna.”
• The Shrill One: It’s not the deficit, stupid.
• Heckuva job, Tony.
• Another wingnut bus tour.
• Tax cuts and deregulation — still the answer to everything.