Trade associations are leeches and parasites, but it’s the productive workers who get screwed.

I was on Democracy Now with Dennis Kucinich this morning talking about the health care vote. Kucinich voted against the bill after they didn’t allow a vote on his amendment to allow states to create single-payer health care systems. I noted that Bart Stupak was able to pull his last-minute hijack of the health care [...]

And speaking of C Street, it looks like the moralizing hypocrites at C Street are shopping for a new roomie. Sen. John Ensign has moved out of the C Street house, the Christian home he shared with other elected officials on Capitol Hill that came under scrutiny for its residents’ beliefs and practices and their [...]

I don’t live in Virginia, but I would’ve loved to hear how tax cuts help the unemployed and uninsured. Another clip worth watching from the Sunday talking heads shows: Frank Luntz explains that because conservative leaders are worried about our future, they have no choice but to make Nazi references at protests. Or something.

He’s with them on everything except what they were elected for.

A French video response from GayClic readers to the Stevie Bee Bishop’s “Big Fat Gay Collab” on the International Day Against Homophobia, May 17, 2009. Also an appropriate song for those 64 D’s who voted for the Stupak Amendment. And the Party of No GOP. Music: Fuck You by Lily Allen. Totally not safe for work.

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Barrt Stupak is about to be Santorum’d. Head on over to Urban Dictionary to vote up Stupak #2.

Thomas Fingar gives some background on the 2002 Iraq NIE, the 2007 Climate Change NIA, and the 2007 Iran NIE.

Jane Mayer has an important article in The New Yorker, The Predator War, in which she reports on the increase in deadly unmanned drone strikes in Pakistan: During his first nine and a half months in office, he has authorized as many C.I.A. aerial attacks in Pakistan as George W. Bush did in his final [...]

Hey ladies! Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas thinks you should pay more for your insurance because you chose to have all that crazy plumbing with its nook and crannies down there instead of a good old fashioned American penis.