Too often there’s an urge to paint the tens of millions of Rapture-fixated Christians as quaint but harmless eccentrics who believe that one day a whole bunch of people, including hopefully themselves, will be sucked up into heaven to party with Jesus and eat popcorn while watching as the rest of the unbelieving sinful world suffers the Tribulations, cheering as flesh falls of people’s faces, and fires, hurricanes and other disasters destroy those who don’t accept Jesus as their savior. Heck there’s even video games about the Tribulations so you can experience what it feel like sitting on a cloud with God handling the remote control!

After working very hard to kill many progressive idea about how best to control health care costs, Mary Landrieu has found one she likes — the one that will most benefit millionaires.

So, here’s a (not very) long-awaited word on the Jane Hamsher/Grover Norquist alliance that has caused such an imbroglio among the online progressive community: Unfortunately and as expected, the focus on Norquist’s presence itself has sucked up much of the oxygen around this, instead of looking at the deeper issue – the use of Fannie [...]

Hamsher and Norquist demonstrate how to beat triangulators at their game; their efforts are unrecognized for what they are, a classic military move. Are you ready to do what it takes to win, including forming a coalition with conservatives?

The White House says they’ll be actively involved in guiding the process of reconciling the Senate and House health reform bills. So the obvious question is: whose interests will they be representing? The public’s? Or the industry’s?

Although it was anticipated that the White House would bail out Fannie and Freddie to the tune of $800 billion before the end of the year to avoid having to get congressional approval, the Christmas Eve news dump made it clear that the slush fund would instead be limitless. And despite the fact that Fannie [...]

In case you were wondering, the failed bombing of Flight 253 is all Obama’s fault.

If you’re sick of having to pay extra for healthy foods or having few food choices beyond Coke vs. Pepsi or seeing farmers get screwed by “Big Ag,” then now’s the time to take action.

[T]here is an orchestrated, active, full-court press to discredit and silence anyone who tries to point out the responsibility the president bears for crafting this bill. I’m surprised that the editor of the Nation would take part in it.

To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, you should never let a good crisis go to waste–and what you have is a great crisis of Senate rules on the issue of health care reform.