• Bastards.
• But…but…we should’ve let them fail.
• It’s ‘Cuda time!
• The GOP civil war in Florida.
• Surely the answer is tax cuts.
• Ibid.
• No.

Not thinking, apparently the American way of doing things.

Featuring new videos from The Lisps and Chris Garneau.

It was only a matter of time before the FOX hothouse sent Liz Cheney into complete political delusion. Today on some panel show, Dick’s Fifth Deferment uttered the words Democrats have waited for since January 21st of this year: Cheney 2012. Sure, BabyDick! The American people really miss your dear old dad. Especially since his [...]

When important cancer drugs can’t go into cheaper generic forms, and cancer and AIDS patients around the world can’t afford them, they should all remember the helpful role they played.

The rest of us can ask Sherrod Brown to save us from PhRMA and this truly shitty piece of lobbyist-written legislation HERE.

In all the talk of surges and numbers of troops and COIN, we too often forget who really pays the price of our adventures in “the long war.” Many of us were saddened – but not surprised at the report in the Guardian this week about the explosion of birth defects amongst children born in [...]

The fight for the public option is inseparable from the fight for better subsidies and affordability. The weaker public option selected by the House saves the government $25 billion. If the House had been able to pass the public option tied to Medicare rates it would have saved $110 billion.

As the NYT reported earlier today, Genentech/Roche wrote a Republican script and a Democratic script for its parrots to enter into the Congressional Record. Here’s what the Republican script looks like (I’m going to try to do the Democratic one next–but this is tedious stuff; and yes, Heath Shuler was working from the Republican script).

“I oppose this bill but love the appropriate balance it gives to monopolistic biologics”

Joe Wilson

Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler’s new book re-examines the recent course of American politics. They tell us about how authoritarian politics – especially on the right – have helped give rise to increasing polarization between Republicans and Democrats. This is an important contribution to debate among political scientists about polarization, but deserves a much wider readership. If they are right – and the differences between authoritarians and non-authoritarians are the key factor driving polarized politics – then many of the received wisdoms of the punditocracy are flat out wrong. Right wing columnists like Michael Gerson and Clive Crook, who deplore the increasing extremism of American politics and especially of the left, are missing out on the ways in which right wing politics are increasingly based around authoritarianism and intolerance.

It looks increasingly likely that anti-choice forces will have lots of difficulty inserting the Stupak amendment language into the Senate’s version of health care reform since the language of the Stupak Amendment is bound to reach into more and more insurance markets over time.