Via Andrew Sullivan, this chart ‘o the day. Source here.
Interesting post, Joe. Is it possible that Rush Limbaugh’s objection–after his recent positive experience in Hawaii, the only state with an employer mandate–is that Obama’s health care plan isn’t socialist enough? Consider this statement from Rushbo: I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all [...]
I am currently imprisoned with Karl Rove–ok, just his memoir, but it’s pretty stuffy in here–and so I haven’t been keeping close track of the Eric Massa affair. But, in sequence…terminal cancer, making sexual advances on a male staffer (or maybe not), confronted by naked Rahm in the House gym shower, claiming he was forced [...]
Rush says he’ll leave the country if it happens. A real American patriot that boy. Seriously, Rush, you should think about leaving anyway–I mean, a country that could come thisclose to passing health care reform has just got to be…thisclose to socialism anyway, right?
Ah, Florida. Land of Disney dreams, Miami Vice, easy Oxycontin, and news reports like this: Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat. “She [...]
“We waterboarded in the CIA–the CIA waterboarded three terrorists. Just three. Nobody was waterboarded at Guantanamo. You know who else the U.S. has waterboarded? Tens of thousands of American service members during their SERE training.” –Marc Thiessen, former White House speechwriter on CNN, January 20, 2010 In late January, the former Bush Administration speechwriter Marc [...]
From our White House Photo Blog:
This fascinating clip making the rounds today documents some tension between Rahm Emanuel and Eric Massa way back in 2006. He lost New York’s 29th to Randy Kuhl by a fairly slim margin that year. Emanuel, then chair of the DCCC, doesn’t seem so impressed with the candidate in the video. h/t Taegan Goddard UPDATE: [...]
