The Onion gives its troubling diagnosis for what ails the President.
From TPM Reader MN …
Just read the post about the gun lobbyist advocating open-carrying at the actual events. It reminded me of this onion classic.
Sen. Kennedy appeals to Massachusetts political leaders to revise state laws to ensure that his seat does not remain unfilled during the critical health care votes. This is a story you’ll want to read.
From Joe Klein …
How can you sustain a democracy if one of the two major political parties has been overrun by nihilists? And another question: How can you maintain the illusion of journalistic impartiality when one of the political parties has jumped the shark?
One of my early experiments with content distribution models …
Late Update: I thought this photo would pretty much speak for itself. But a distressingly large number of readers have written in asking whether or thinking that the guy on the sweatshirt is David Cassidy. Please … David Cassidy? It’s Mork from Mork and Mindy. Here’s a shirt my wife just found online which has the same picture.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Rhodes Scholar and Harvard alum: “I have a fundamental problem with any 1,000-page bills.”
Late Update: More Vitter nonsense from that same article: He plans to bring the Canadian health system to its knees through reimportation of drugs.
Obama gets asked about National Treasure II: “I would tell you, but I’d have to kill you.”
The feature story on the CNN page right now is “Claims about health care keep coming.” Translation: people coming up with even more insane claims about health care reform. But here’s the blurb on the front page …
A woman asked Rep. Allen Boyd at a health care town hall if reform would force people to let the government access their bank accounts. “That’s not true,” the Florida Democrat responded. “When someone sends you something on the Internet that sounds crazy, how about just checking it a little bit?” The CNN Truth Squad has debunked that rumor. Yet other false claims keep coming up.
Now, the backstory here is that Allen Boyd, a very conservative Democrat from Florida, was probably the single most in the tank Dem for Social Security privatization back in 2005. So when Allen Boyd gets exasperated knocking down the crazy, you know things have gotten to a pretty sorry pass.
For a little background, here’s Zack Roth’s piece from last week knocking down this bank account lie.
One of the great, too-little-considered mysteries of modern Washington is that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was actually a Rhodes Scholar. Recently, in order to explain the seeming contradiction between his opposition to health care reform and his support for reimporting drugs from countries with national health care systems like the Dems want in the US. Vitter says it’s part of a long-range plan to bankrupt the health care systems in those other countries and force them back to a USA style free market system.