Colbert: Beck broadcasts on a special frequency only white people can hear. Watch it.

It seems there are two candidates vying to be governor of Georgia who had their high school teaching licenses suspended for misconduct with underaged female students.

Normally you have to really look around to find a governor’s race with even one candidate with ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ situation. But two!

Do I hear three!?!?

All crystal clear. From Bob’s new post …

I was serving in the Clinton administration at the time. In the first months of 1993 it looked as if Clinton’s health care proposal would sail through Congress. But the process dragged on and by 1994 it bogged down. We knew health care was imperiled but none of us knew that failure to pass health care would doom much of the rest of Clinton’s agenda and wrest control of Congress out of the hands of the Democrats. In retrospect, it’s clear Republicans did know.

Read the whole thing.

Whatever happens with Health Care Reform or the November election, I think we can say that having the American Idol kids sing from the Rolling Stones songbook was a profoundly misguided, perhaps tragic decision.

So sue me, I’m watching on DVR. Just got back to New York tonight.

Earlier today, MSNBC’s David Shuster seemed to get Rep. John Shadegg, a very conservative congressman from Arizona, to say that he’d support a “single payer” health care system.

Our Rachel Slajda followed up with the congressman’s office to see what was up. And his office just responded …

Congressman Shadegg believes health insurance companies should have to compete for our business as individual consumers. Forcing them to compete, even through a public option, would be better than an individual mandate which will not work.

TPM Reader JO checks in from the Lone Star State …

I’m on a telephone town hall with my representative (unfortunately) Jeb Hensarling. Most of the callers are elderly and ill-informed. Sadly, they probably get most of their information from Fox News like my parents do. It’s interesting to hear all the misconceptions floating around out there. This being Texas, a lot of the calls are about abortion. I’ve heard at least 2 callers complain about the federal funding of abortion they believe is part of the HCR bill. They mentioned Mexicans getting free abortions and even Chinese (???) abortions – whatever that means. Hensarling spouts the usual talking points. He promotes his support of HB 4529 which includes tax credits, medical liability reform, and a “template for price and quality transparency”. Mainly, I am appalled at the ignorance of the constituents asking the questions. However, I’m pleasantly surprised that at least 20% of the calls are in favor of the president and HCR. They come mainly from Dallas. Current woman suggested the Joint Chiefs should be convened to unseat “this illegal presidency” (!!! yikes, that’s crazy even for TX) There is a lot of discussion of the constitutionality of the government’s actions and talk of our “republic” rather than our “democracy” – telling language.

No CBO score tonight. Which might seem like sort of an obscure and technical matter, except for it pushes the big vote back till Sunday.

Here’s an example of how fluid the current state of public opinion is on Health Care Reform and, even more so, how you really need to dig into the weeds with some of these polls rather than just focus on the toplines. In the new NBC/WSJ poll 48% say the current reform bill is a “bad idea” and only 36% say it’s a “good idea”. 15% are undecided. That actually shows reform being considerably less popular than most recent polls. The current TPM Poll Average has the question at 48.9% against and 42.5% for it.

But look at the next question on the poll. “Do you think it would be better to pass Barack Obama’s health care plan and make its changes to the health care system or to not pass this plan and keep the current health care system?”

46% say better to pass it; 45% say do nothing.

And the one after that asks if your Representative voted with the Republicans to kill reform, would make you more or less likely to vote for them. 31% say more likely, 34% say less likely and 34% say it wouldn’t make a difference. In other words, a wash, with perhaps the slightest advantage to the pro-Reform forces.

Somehow MSNBC’s David Shuster got Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) to come out in support of a single-payer system on national TV. Go figure.