You don’t negotiate with terrorists.

I never thought I would have to admit this, but Glenn Beck totally nailed it when he said that Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people and/or white culture. He’s done a pretty good job of covering it up so far, but his judicial nominees expose him for what he really is:

A consortium wants half a billion in U.S. Stimulus money to create 2,000 Chinese jobs making turbines in Shenyang for a wind farm in West Texas. We’ve outsourced factories, technology and jobs. We must hold the line at off-shoring our tax dollars.

Ever since they were released last Friday, I’ve been meaning to write about the FBI notes of Dick Cheney’s interview with Plamemania special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.  As is her wont, Emptywheel has already critiqued Cheney’s non-answers from a variety of angles, and multiple media reports have commented on the ex-Veep’s nearly all-encompassing amnesia, best summarized by Watergate whistle-blower John [...]

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The Rules Committee began meeting today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, HR 3962. It is airing live on C-SPAN 2. Part 1 of the liveblog can be found here. Additional coverage from David Dayen can be found here and here. 4:52 – The Rules [...]

Jim McGovern’s statement in the Rules Committee session on health care should be echoed by every Democrat in Washington. He rebuts a number of points: • Republicans have been whining about how there’s been no committee hearings on this bill, which is nonsense. They’re getting off on a technicality, as the House leadership has blended [...]

I can only guess that the House didn’t vote on health care before the election because (as Pelosi has signaled) they didn’t have the votes. Which is crazy, because if Rahm really cares about a “w” you have to wonder why the White House wasn’t whipping for the bill regardless of what it said just [...]

The Rules Committee will meet today at 2pm to discuss the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act,  HR 3962. It will be aired live on C-SPAN 2. [Ed. Note: FDL News Desk will also be covering this Rules Hearing.] 2:06 – Rep. Charles Rangel begins by reading on opening statement [...]

It’s worth revisiting what the right-wing was saying after a Christianist terrorist assassinated Dr. George Tiller in Kansas.