• May 27, 2012

health care reform

No but really, this guy subbing for Glenn Beck on his radio show, “Doc Thompson,” says this in response to the new 10% tanning salon tax.

Happy 70th Birthday, Madame Speaker! You get to sign this companion Health Care Reform bill, for a present! Also, for a super-great present, you look about 50 years old, while John McCain looks like some bloated 1,000-year-old mummy failure dug up from a bog. Oh look Nancy is going to sign this thing on the [...]

Whoa, do you like Elvis Presley or Sarah “Pall-en”? Well then you will like this fellow at least twice as much as those things, because of Freedom. Just need to tune up this here eBay guitar a little better and it’s all gonna happen, Democrats gonna weep.

by Jim Newell  4:56 pm March 25, 2010

AEI IS GAY FOR OBAMACARE? From Bruce Bartlett, another ex-supply-side wingnut turned resident of Planet Earth: “Since [David Frum] is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI ‘scholars’ on the subject [...]

by Ken Layne  2:14 pm March 25, 2010

ARGH: “The U.S. House of Representatives will have to vote again on changes to a landmark overhaul of the country’s health system after the Senate’s parliamentarian rejected two provisions in the measure. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said the changes are minor and related to education, not health care. Still, [...]

The people of Columbus, Ohio, were understandably delighted 40 years ago when a small turd mistaken for an aborted fetus actually began to yell in rudimentary English about “communists.” The so-called Columbus Miracle Baby never did anything else of note until last week, when it began yelling and throwing dollar bills at an old man [...]

Scott Brown, remember that guy? He was the Naked Senator, the 41st Vote, the 57th state, all the teabagger dreams realized and brought to life in the handsome form of some hairy-bellied Golem from the pages of a 1980s issue of Cosmopolitan. It was as if he drove that dumb mini pickup straight out to [...]

GAH, it’s 12:37 a.m. and Harry Reid’s up there saying, “You know, none of these amendments have been passed, I don’t think any of them are going to be,” etc., he is tired, but he runs marathons, so whatever. Now Mitch McConnell is back, saying of course Republicans only want to “improve” the bill, which [...]

by Ken Layne  6:35 pm March 24, 2010

OH GOD, STOP IT: Oh hey look this little gal (and whatever MONSTROUS ADULT made her do this, for food) just wants her super-good Viral Video to get on the Glenn Beck talent show for children, so watch it and go ahead and let us know where to find the embed code, posterity, etc. Okay [...]

Let’s see let’s see what will make Americans realize that getting some basic assurances of health care in this country is a super-bad & extra-terrible thing?

Roger Ebert, the Internet’s most prolific writer (and also a famous film critic), typed this succinct & damning Twitter reply to Mark Kirk’s brave election-winning plan to bring back insurance bans on Americans with “pre-existing conditions.” [Ebert via Daily Kos]

by Jim Newell  2:10 pm March 24, 2010

HAHAHAHA WELL LOOK AT THAT: The Republicans’ “chief health care negotiator,” Sen. Chuck Grassley of Twitter fame, is already taking credit for things in the evil health care bill: “Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over taxes, has worked to hold tax-exempt hospitals accountable for the federal tax benefits [...]

Man, he’s really trying to get ahead of this thing before everyone realizes how terribly neutralized he’s become, isn’t he? Hopefully it won’t be that long before other prospective 2012 candidates start making murmurs (SCREAMING ON FOX NEWS) about how Mitt Romney invented ObamaCare, in Massachusetts, with Scott Brown’s vote.

by Jim Newell  3:20 pm March 23, 2010

ARMED REVOLUTION NOW! “WASHINGTON — Americans by 9 percentage points have a favorable view of the health care overhaul that President Obama signed into law Tuesday, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, a notable turnaround from surveys before the vote that showed a plurality against it.” [USA Today]

History is being made! Joe Biden just said so, which is a gaffe. “Today, America becomes a whole lot wealthier,” says Joe Biden! “Because they’ll be a whole lot healthier.” Is that even constitutional? What a crowd of insurance executives they’ve assembled in the White House. “Please have a seat,” says Obama, so that’s what [...]