The left-wing activist group Code Pink confirms to TPMmuckraker that it was behind the fake AIPAC press release calling for a settlement freeze that suckered in some major news outlets.

You may have noticed that Mitt Romney is saying some pretty over-the-top stuff right now about the Health Care Reform law. But cut him a little slack. Unless Health Care Reform is a non-issue by 2012 (which I believe is a distinct possibility), he’s got to know that the passage of this bill pretty much ends his chances to be nominated for the presidency. Read More

As you know, 34 Democrats voted against the Health Care Reform in the House last night. But different Dems faced very different choices. They range from Rep. Artur Davis who’s in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 18 points to Chet Edwards who’s in a Texas district where Republicans have a 20 point margin. At the suggestion of a reader, Eric Kleefeld created a table organizing each of the Nos from the folks from the bluest districts to the reddest. It’s a very revealing table. And it shows a few members who probably have very serious primary challenges ahead of them. Click the table to see the whole thing.

We now know which Republican member of Congress screamed “Baby Killer” at Rep. Stupak during the final moments of the House debate last night: Rep. Neugebauer (R-TX).

He is rather laughably claiming he wasn’t calling Rep. Stupak a “baby killer” but rather the law.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), lamenting the passage of health care reform: “I wish that we had continued that bipartisan effort that took place prior to the President coming into office.” Watch.

We originally pegged this slideshow to tonight’s season premiere of Dancing With The Stars, but progressives are feeling pretty good today, so let your hair down:

I’m really wondering whether folks like Mitt Romney, who desperately wants to run for president again, realizes that the stuff he writes at NRO will still be available for regular voters to read months and years in the future, long after the even most Republicans have emerged from the current fever swamp. Here’s Mitt’s description of what just happened. “America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation.”

Not Glenn Beck, not some Tea Partier banging on the door of a Democratic townhall.

We have denials this morning from two of the suspects in the “Baby killer!” outburst during Rep. Bart Stupak’s floor speech last night. Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA) says it wasn’t he. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says, “I have no idea who yelled it because they were seated behind me and the House was packed.”

John McCain: There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year. They have poisoned the well in what they’ve done and how they’ve done it.”

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is on Fox at the moment describing what’s coming next in the Senate. And with all due respect he’s just not telling the truth, to put it generously. There’s no other way to describe it. He’s claiming that Republicans are going to do everything they can to improve the bill, not just gum things up. Now, ‘improvement’ is inherently subjective. Improvement in his eyes would mean dramatically changing the legislation. But this is a case where there’s no ambiguity. In the simplest, most direct sense that’s simply not what they’re trying to do. Republicans are going to do everything in their power to prevent the Democrats from doing things like taking out the “Cornhusker Kickback” and all the rest of the unpopular stuff. This isn’t an opinion. That’s what they’re trying to do. It is transparently political. They want to keep that stuff in the bill so they can blame it on the Democrats and run against it.