The Whole Delivery

The line "You just can't make this up about these ignoramuses" just cannot be uttered enough. Minutes after Kucinich's speech, David Shuster interviewed Baby Prop user and intelligence challenged Republican John Shadegg. Instead of regurgitating the usual government takeover and "kill the bill" line of his party that we have gone accustom to, Shadegg provided an even more entertaining and gregarious moment for the day. Shadegg supports Single Payer! Though the whole interview is comedy platinum (because gold is an understatement), the standout moment came at the 3:14 mark when Shadegg somehow tries to say that his party is against the for-profit health insurance companies. Watch the fun unfold: The laughter just can't be contained for how foolish Shadegg looks. I just wish Shuster would have been able to then ask him if would sign to be a co-sponsor for Alan Grayson's Medicare Expansion Act ? That would have furthered certified how epic t...

Baucus is an invaluable player in the no public option crowd. The one who would rather keep people uninsured than lose their profits Just like I thought going over a trillion on the stimulus was a non starter. Just like picking Joseph Stiglitz or Paul Krugman for the Treasury Secretary, or in the Cabinet was a non starter. Just like picking Howard Dean as the HHS (and by the way, he will certainly be awesome tomorrow and Wednesday night) was a non-starter. I thought all of these things were non-starters just like single payer. Now, a "public option" to the nutcase 40, with the lobbyists loving folks like Baucus, Conrad, Asshole Joementum and others all happy to let their buddies do what they would do, is a non-starter. I guess if there's no public option here, then you can guess there will be non-starters to proper emissions standards for an energy bill in the Senate (where climate change denial masters reign supreme in the SOP), and a non starter to smart immigration re...