President Obama and the Democratic Establishment agree that this is a center-right nation. They leave governance to the epistemic arrogance of their most conservative. Too bad about your good ideas, they don’t count.

The arrogance of power is directly proportional to bad judgment. The more blunders, the more arrogance. That makes me think of Rahm Emanuel, a master at marginalizing others in games of petty politics at the very times the judgments of others are most necessary to success.

Reid may have found progressive favorite Bernie Sanders’ price on the health care sell-out, but another opportunity is (hopefully) coming soon…

There is a very insidious myth right now that there is a large group of progressive leaders who want to “kill” health care reform in its entirety. While there might be some progressive leaders out there who have advocated for this position, I have yet to hear from them. What I have heard from people like Howard Dean, Markos Moulitsas, Keith Olbermann, Jane Hamsher, etc… is that they simply want to kill the current version of the Senate bill. None of them, to my knowledge, have advocated ending all efforts to pass a health care reform bill. I believe each and every one of them have advocated for simply passing a different bill through different means. Do not heed those who are working to create a false dynamic where the only two options are passing this horrible Senate bill or passing nothing at all. The idea that there is a large group of progressive leaders trying to kill health care reform is a red herring.

A federal court ordered the latest Rick Berman front group to take down its anti-healthcare ad because of trademark violations. Berman’s group falsely claimed several doctors’ groups opposed “government health care,” and those groups weren’t too happy.

David Axelrod, Dick Durbin, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, Olympia Snowe, Mary Landrieu, Sherrod Brown, Michael Bloomberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nathan Myhrvold, Vali Nasr, John McCain, Kent Conrad, Amy Klobuchar, Howard Dean, John Dean, Robert Merry. Christmas.

Joe Diffie — Leroy The Redneck Raindeer.

“Joezymandias.” I met a blogger from an ill-govern’d land Who said: “A sad & dickless egotistical toad Sits in the Senate. Beside him only stand Insurance comp’nies, nit-wits, a dim Pantload: His saggy face, & smirk of self-absorbed demand, Ensure all else his pretensions dread, Which yet survive, stamped on his whiny puss – The [...]

Barack Obama gets his Mission Accomplished banner day, hits the airwaves, and blows smoke up America’s enormous-because-it-won’t-get-off-the-couch ass

The American people deserve an explanation on how and why this important consumer provision was almost gutted. The previously offered defense for the elimination of the ban on annual limits was not based in reality.