The Whole Delivery

61-38, it is moved. Eurekia! The full roll call to come, as Judd Gregg is being a you know what hole as we speak. Update : Snowe and Collins join in on the fun , probably facing the pressure from the AFSCME in Maine. The diaper man Vitter was the only one missing in action. Update 2 : And with the House needed to make this official, her comes Nancy to the rescue:

The terrific John Nichols reminds all of us of another glorious birthday for a gem of a program . Forty-five years ago today, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri, to mark a milestone in the long struggle to establish health care as a right, not a privilege, for all Americans. With reporters and photographers surrounding them, Johnson took a place beside former President Harry Truman, who the sitting president thanked for “planting the seeds of compassion and duty which have today flowered into care for the sick and serenity for the fearful.” With that, Johnson completed the signing of the Social Security Act of 1965 , and establishing the universal, single-payer public insurance programs for the elderly and low-income Americans that we know as Medicare and Medicaid. It was worth the full read and thensome folks. Happy Birthday indeed folks.

Yet again, just like this time two weeks ago with Matt Taibbi , CNBC's number one public shill embarrasses herself again with her arrogance making her look stupid. This time, it's with Anthony Weiner, watch her make herself a total idiot: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy She asks Weiner, who going to turn 45 this week, "Why aren't you on Medicare?" She asks him that question after she did her usual "can't trust government stick." She was already one of the bigger dishonest shills in news television already. Now she is making herself one of news TV's total idiots as well.

Photo from google.com America's health care woes continue . From Washington Post writer Amy Goldstein (with contribution from Chris Jenkins, Lisa Rein, and Nikita Stewart), a chilling story today about states across the country cutting back their Medicaid program. You can think the Bush Recession again for more valuable statistics added to the legacy . With revenue falling at the same time that more people are losing their jobs and private health coverage, states already have pared their programs and many are looking at deeper cuts for the coming year. Already, 19 states -- including Maryland and Virginia -- and the District of Columbia have lowered payments to hospitals and nursing homes, eliminated coverage for some treatments, and forced some recipients out of the insurance program completely. In this article, good news is harder to find than good work (or in actual reality right now, any work, but it comes here in this paragraph: According to a Washington source who is in clos...