“What’s the CBO score?” is one way to judge between competing health reform efforts, but hardly the best way. How about asking the questions raised by Faithful Reform in Health Care: how many lives will be saved, and how many jobs preserved?

The fallout from Lehman Brothers continues. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are exposed.

WaPo’s Dana Priest’s latest article indicates that somewhere there’s a list of Americans who, the President has determined, can be killed with no due process.

Two freshman Democratic Representatives, Jared Polis (CO2) and Chellie Pringree (ME1), are pushing hard to include a public option in any reconciliation measure meant to fix the current Senate bill. Polis and Pingree are currently circulating a letter in support of the public option, and are looking for signatures from their colleagues.

[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.]

Serious question: has there been a weaker, more impotent and pathetic majority in the history of the United States Senate?

Lynch stated that it “stinks to high heaven what happened here” and called it inexcusable, saying “It makes me doubt your commitment to the American people.” Geithner replied that the American people would not have benefited from AIG defaulting, suggesting that was the only option other than paying off the counter-parties at par.

Geithner says that he had no role in the NY Fed preventing disclosure of the counter-party payment information, having recused himself from day-to-day operations after being nominated for Treasury Secretary on November 24, 2008.

[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.]

We won this round. The White House/Baucus bill is DOA.

Now it’s time to return to the task of passing real health care reform. And this morning in the Houuse, Chellee Pingree and Jared Polis are pushing the Senate to reconsider the public option.

But that’s only happening because Raul Grijalva stood strong. Please say thanks by donating to his campaign, because you know PhRMA won’t.