Welcome to “Battle at the Blair House,” the bipartisan health care summit taking place today between 10:00am and 4:00pm. We’ll be liveblogging all day–pull up a chair and sit a spell. . . . This is part two, which should be focussed on insurance reform. . . part one’s liveblog can be found here.

As usual, my absentee governor, in his bid to win the votes of the evil heartless racist yahoos known as “Republican base voters”, goes the extra mile in terms in venality, stupidity, ignorance and inhumanity.

Welcome to “Battle at the Blair House,” the bipartisan health care summit taking place today between 10:00am and 4:00pm. We’ll be liveblogging all day–pull up a chair and sit a spell. . . .

Senator Leahy has called a one-day, one-witness hearing for the Senate Judiciary Hearing to look into circumstances surrounding the OPR report on the torture memos, and the exoneration by DOJ attorney David Margolis of serious charges against the memo authors John Yoo and Jay Bybee. The single witness is Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, who, it turns out, has some history with a well-known case of abusive incarceration approximately 10 years ago.

King was just giving voice to what lots of right-wing extremists were thinking.

Because soon no one will be providing or selling hummers… …oh, sorry, providing or selling Hummers™. General Motors says it will discontinue Hummer after its bid to sell the brand to a Chinese company failed. Yes, the offensive symbol of excess and primary resting place of yellow ribbon magnets and bumper stickers proclaiming certain colors [...]

Featuring music by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Local Natives.

Because the first Carrie Prejean wasn’t awful enough! Hark! to the Breaking News that has been announced on the Fox News Dot Com Light Entertainment Fun Web Site that calls itself “Pop Tarts,” for reasons I don’t especially care to contemplate. Anyway, just… like… read this shit. I mean, holy shit. Former Miss California Carrie [...]

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, John Yoo points out that Barack Obama is an ungrateful prick.

Now that David Ogden is leaving as U.S. Deputy Attorney General, the speculation about his replacement has already begun