The Senate’s longest serving member, Robert Byrd, died this morning at the age of 92. This really isn’t a big shocker. Byrd’s health has been deteriorating for years and given his age, it was pretty much expected that this was coming after the news of his serious condition yesterday. As far as a replacement for […]
Nate Silver did a post yesterday taking down the meme that FDR would have been able to push through healthcare. Of course FDR had a much bigger majority as Nate points out: It’s amazing to see the size of FDR’s majority, but I believe there is another reason why Obama isn’t FDR. Tomorrow Obama will […]
Nate Silver points out: The Record Profits Myth strikes again — I don’t like the insurance companies either; I’d gladly get rid of them and replace them with single payer. But the industry’s profits are low: only about 3.3%. So what happens when insurance companies are forced to spend 85-90% of premiums on health care […]
Ezra Klein today said this: To put this a bit more sharply, if I could construct a system in which insurers spent 90 percent of every premium dollar on medical care, never discriminated against another sick applicant, began exerting real pressure for providers to bring down costs, vastly simplified their billing systems, made it easier […]
In her latest “syndicated column”, Michelle Malkin has decided to target blacks and the left as being responsible for the rash of cop killings this year. Ironically she forgets to mention one tragedy that claimed the lives of 3 cops earlier this year: A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire […]
I really want to see a Senator Franken. Think of how much fun CSpan will be then: According to data just released by the Minnesota Secretary of State, Al Franken has gained a net of 43 votes on the first day of that state’s recount process. Norm Coleman had a lead of 215 voters over […]
It’s no secret that the Liberal blogosphere helped propel the Democrat out of the abyss of minority status in our government. Could the right wing blogosphere do the same for Republicans? Well if they continue following the path of idiocracy and taking push polls as gospel, then that won’t be likely unless America gets hit […]
Break out the big font – here’s Drudge’s headline: ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING And then here is what he says about it: ZOGBY SATURDAY: Republican John McCain has pulled back within the margin of error… The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama 48% to 47% in Friday, […]
OMG! Obama is ahead by only 2! That’s the news you get hit in the face with if you go to Drudge. It’s been his top headline since yesterday and the below that was the infamous “developing” he always puts on stories he knows are false. Nate Silver has totally dismantled Drudge’s bogus news and […]