A new Rasmussen poll found that Blanche Lincoln does not break 39% against any possible Republican opponent. The poll also indicates her vote for health care reform (which has become very unpopular in Arkansas) might be a real cause of her dropping poll numbers.

In a video that rings so true, it hurts, Lee Stranahan, a former Obama supporter, gives us the aspiring president’s own speech—a speech where Obama makes it plain just how bad an idea the “Cadillac” excise tax on health benefits actually is.

Sen. Byron Dorgan’s taking a “don’t mourn, organize” approach to his last year in the Senate.

Anti-abortion proponent and C Street member Rep. Bart Stupak may have reason to believe we’ll actually lose conservatives in the House (or those same obstructionists in the Senate) if the health care reform bill becomes anything but a plan to turn the American middle class into serfs handing over chunks of their income away to the health care industry.

I don’t think Ellen Malcolm is one of those people. Despite mistakes Emily’s List has made in the past, I think she truly was committed to abortion rights. It’s sad to see her walking away from the rubble before the Democratic Party presses the detonator, but totally understandable.

Nancy Pelosi’s snippy comment about Obama’s campaign promises was a reference to the White House’s demand that the House accept the Senate excise tax. Yet, the White House has not revisited any of the assumptions it has made about the excise tax that seem to be increasingly dubious–such as that it will end up giving workers a raise.

• Shorter Bart Stupak: Look at meeeee!!!!
• Week Three of the the National Freakout continues.
• The GOP: still not serious about security.
• Change you can belie…ah, screw it.
• OMG! Only Palins are allowed to have out-of-wedlock kids.
• Perfect.
• Ed Schultz for Senate?
• Heh. He said “bacon-flavored lube.”

Mara Liasson, “Let me tell you about young black people today.”

First the Democrats celebration. Acid Girls – Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo. Followed by the Republican celebration.

There may, theoretically, exist “conservatives” who have sober, principled reasons for doubting the reality of human-caused global climate change, and perhaps one day diligent researchers may encounter one of these specimens in the wild. However, as of this writing, without exception, the “conservatives” denying climate change are doing so solely because they are willfully ignorant [...]