Fox News’ Shepherd Smith went off on one of those faux populist tirades his network specializes in. Watch.

The original state case against the cops accused of shooting unarmed civilians on a bridge in New Orleans just after Katrina swamped the city in 2005 was botched, but now the feds have secured a guilty plea from a police supervisor who admitted to covering up the crime. It’s a script straight from a police drama: planting guns at the scene, writing a bogus police report, and coming up with cover stories for what really happened. Except it’s darker and more disturbing than TV would dare be because it took place in the desperate hours after New Orleans flooded.

You’ve got several members of the GOP Congressional leadership today saying that they believe the Health Care Reform bill is actually unconstitutional: Grassley, Boehner and others.

Not only is the idea preposterous in itself. But like six months ago, Grassley not only believed it was constitutional. It was a policy he supported.

I find it incongruous that during the same Health Care Summit Republicans are simultaneously proposing to abolish Medicare and replace it with vouchers and also claim that they’re opposing Health Care Reform to save Medicare.

Anti-gay protests broke out recently in Uganda in the wake of a controversy over a proposed law that would mandate life imprisonment for gay sex and even the death penalty.

Sen. Alexander (R-TN) was so full of it in his argument with President Obama about whether premiums will go up under reform that even the AP says he’s wrong. When they’re calling it, you know it’s gotta be bad.

Obama hit him on it too. See the video here.

For some bizarre reason, during his initial presentation, Sen. Reid said that “no one has talked about reconciliation,” the issue that quickly came to the fore as soon as the Health Care Reform summit got started.

But that’s obviously not true. Everybody’s talking about it. And a lot of Dems would be pretty upset if they weren’t talking about it.

But in any case, what was that about? That’s obviously not true.

Is Sen. Conrad (D-ND) calling game over on Health Care Reform?

Sen. Alexander (R-TN) is laying out the Republican line right now, insisting that for today’s Health Care Summit to be a real exercise, President Obama has to agree not to pass any bill in the Senate with a majority vote. A lot of this is just nonsense about the filibuster. But there’s a key issue here that the Senate Republicans are simply being dishonest about. And I fear most of the reporters down in on the scene are going to fall for it. The argument Alexander is making is that the Democrats back in 2005 stood against what the Democrats are trying to do now to pass Health Care Reform. This is simply false. And he knows it. Read More