Before Democrats try this, I want them to think long and hard. Their “fix” to a very unpopular health care bill is an additional bill that Republicans will easily attack as being more tax increases, more cuts to Medicare, and more backroom deals to give special tax breaks for unions. Even if I agree with these general policy changes, they are not a “fix,” they are political death wish.

[Ed. Note: FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger--including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.]

Rachel Maddow was correct in her give-no-quarter humiliation of the otherwise sensible Jared Bernstein. Every competent macro economist (well, excluding some freshwater folks) tells us that during a serious, high unemployment recession and “jobless recovery,” like the one strangling our economy, government should be spending more to create jobs, not less.

The reviews are in and President Hoover McCain Obama’s hope and changey spending freeze has not been well received.

A Three-Year Spending Freeze? How did we elect a young David Broder?

New videos from She Keeps Bees and Brian Patrick Band. Firedog Edward Teller has his first draft War Dirge, the third movement from his latest composition, Hindu Kush, up. Link below.

The Harold Ford Gaffe-tacular Bus just keeps on rolling.

No one has explained how the capable political team that helped Obama win against eight years of the failed and despised Bush Administration can save Democrats if their salvation requires their President to become someone he hasn’t been and to fire the advisers who keep him on the same failure path.

Breaking tonight, the President will propose a discretionary, non-security spending freeze for three years starting in FY 2011 as part of his State of the Union address.

[FDL has complete team coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger--including more legal analysis, court documents, videos, and liveblogging direct from the federal court in San Francisco. You can find it all on our dedicated Prop 8 page.]