In an act of extreme political malfeasance, Obama made the focus of his health care push “bending the cost curve” and good CBO scores. To create the illusion of savings, they delayed the lion’s share of benefits for years. At the same time, to appease the corporatists, they did nothing to help reduce Americans’ health care costs in the short term.

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The EPA has quietly and gradually gone about their business. Today, they finalized rules for oil and gas facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the EPA is looking at the impact of the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the production of natural gas, after Congress mandated the study. They sought information from all chemical companies engaged in fracking in the United States. Halliburton, however, is not complying with EPA requests.

This is why it’s nice to have a Democratic majority on the National Labor Relations Board: workers get rights. The National Labor Relations Board ruled that an employee can safely discuss work issues with their co-workers on Facebook without fearing punishment by their employer.

What journalist Matt Bai and Virginia’s junior Senator Mark Warner choose not to understand is that centrism is an ideology even more stubborn than the left or right they love to attack, but an ideology that got us into the mess we’re in now, both fiscally and electorally.

If the DISCLOSE Act passes in the lame duck session, I’m a spotted egret.

Dubya, playing the oh-so-popular-among-Bush-apologists “history will be the judge” card with Matt Lauer.

• The number one priority of Americans, Democrats and Independents is passing a new stimulus bill to create new jobs. The number one priority of Republicans is repealing health care.
• The number two priority of Republicans, Democrats and Independents is cutting federal spending.
• The number three priority of Americans, Democrats and Independents is repealing the health care bill.
• The number four priority of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents is extending all of the Bush tax cuts.
• Americans and Independents do not track on one single issue with Republicans over Democrats.
• More Republicans want to pass a new stimulus bill to create jobs than extend all the Bush tax cuts.

There’s a great argument for having more brackets anyway, one that Democrats could win in the court of public opinion if they cared about those things. Right now, there’s enough of an aspirational class that calling people who make over $250,000 a year “rich” (which they are) confuses those who want to get to that point and are wondering why they’re being demonized. But adding in a millionaire’s bracket, or even further up the scale, would isolate the mega-rich from the merely rich, and would make completely clear who Republicans are working for.

Ding dong, the John Durham torture tape investigation is thus dead, with the statute of limitations run out. So where did the American media that has been covering the John Durham torture tape destruction investigation since its inception suddenly go; what hole did they crawl into when the actual statute of limitation, on the base acts for the whole investigation, was expiring? That is a question worth hearing an answer to. It is not that they didn’t know, because you can bet they saw the letter last week. Why would the media stand by as the government whistles past the graveyard point of the primary jurisdiction of the John Durham Special Prosecutor jurisdiction?