The aftermath of the Massachusetts election. Haiti.

Crumley Cogwheel. This Paramount Pictures Famous Studios Modern Madcap cartoon was released in January of 1962.

A person naming himself “Mark W. Hendrickson, Ph. D” — Ph. D. mind you, so you know he’s a clever fellow — has made an Astonishing Discovery in the pages of the American Thinker (whose logo is Uncle Sam taking a crap, for inexplicable reasons). Namely, even though liberals like to call conservatives “fascists,” the real “fascists” are in fact… liberals! Who knew!

I may be barren, but I think any couple that makes it through such life-changing events like cancer together gets full claim to the title of marriage.

But, as Audrey Bilger points out, the Prop 8 proponents envision not just denying that title–marriage–to same sex couples. They would deny that title to a lot of straight couples, too, couples just like mr. emptywheel and me, who remain childless. And they would go further.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, stop denigrating our own military and elevating KSM to the status of soldier which OBL covets so much. They are gangsters and murders, nothing more. Particularly vicious gangsters, but not soldiers–never soldiers.

Sen. Harry Reid made a Friday evening announcement that he would support Bernanke, hoping to head off further erosion in Bernanke’s support. But it may not be enough.

Progressive Caucus whip Diane Watson’s office tells her constituents that she’s “willing to hold her nose and vote for a bill that had an individual mandate but no public option,” according to a FDL activist call report.

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To those clamoring for progressives in the House to cave: think responsibly. What you do now can result either in real reform, in expansion of care with minimal reform. Passing the Senate bill, based on the excise tax alone, may have been a significant factor in Coakley’s loss. Health care reform is important–which is why we shouldn’t accept just the Senate bill, because (except for the Medicare changes) it is not health care reform.

It appears that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are both currently on board with the reconciliation sidecar strategy to fix the Senate bill. This could be a good thing. It would allow them to fix many of the bill’s problems while re-inserting extremely popular provisions like the public option and the Medicare buy-in. Unfortunately they are thinking about using the reconciliation sidecar to make a very unpopular Senate bill pure political poison.