This morning, the Politico made news by reporting that someone at the White House had ordered Harry Reid to cut a deal with Joe Lieberman on health care. The White House denied the report. But since, then, two more reoprters have confirmed Politico’s account.

I love teen melodramas. I still faithfully have the original Beverly Hills 90210 running in the background twice a day–I have seen almost every episode of its ten year run–and I watch The OC and One Tree Hill, though wow those high school kids in Tree Hill sure drink a lot in bars, and without fake IDs, either!

Once again, the United States is rattling a saber about killing people in Quetta, despite all the inevitable civilian death and mass outrage. Such a move would show the shallowness of the “just war” talk in President Obama’s disgraceful Nobel paean to Mars. Quetta is a city of 850,000 people, which is somewhere between the [...]

Larry Summers and Eric Cantor each find different ways to tell the nation’s mega banks they have nothing to fear from government insisting they help in economic recovery.

CNN’s situation room just mentioned it, and Joe himself doesn’t seem to be happy about the heat. Poor thing. If you’d like to see more attention paid to fact that Komen is using money raised by those who are “racing for the cure” to give to Hadassah Lieberman, please consider donating to the campaign.

There’s now video of Joe Lieberman supporting the Medicare buy-in concept – not during his 2000 or 2004 national campaigns, but in a discussion with the Connecticut Post just three months ago, in September 2009.

The National Security Archive has released a list of dates for which the White House will restore emails under its settlement agreement. That list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working [...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that health insurance stocks are up dramatically today after Joe Lieberman’s threat to filibuster health care reform. Lieberman has a new-found strong opposition to the Medicare buy-in proposal–a massive flip-flop from his earlier support.

Sane people have long ago realized that coddling Lieberman is what got us here and needs to be stopped.

If you want to let the health care establishment know that they sacrifice their credibility by continuing to embrace and financially support Lieberman and his wife Hadassah, sign the petition to the Susan G. Komen Foundation telling them to stop giving them money raised for cancer research.

The Economic Policy Institute provides a much needed counter-weight to those cheerleading the use of Cadillac-as-Chevy taxes to pay for the Senate health care bill. It shows, generally, that the millionaire’s tax used to fund the House bill is far more progressive than the Cadillac-as-Chevy tax used to fund the Senate bill, which ends up taxing those at $20-30,000 more than it taxes those at $500,000 to 1 million a year.