Here’s a Congressman, Anthony Weiner from New York, absolutely destroying the three Fox News hosts that are trying to grill him on healthcare reform.

Definitely worth watching and thinking about no matter WHAT side of the debate you’re on:

Rachel Maddow does a tremendous job of taking down several Republican Senators, who were totally for reconciliation before they were totally against it.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPpcwtWvzY&feature=player_embedded if you can’t see the video embedded above.)

Here again we see the right wing being dishonest, and having it lead to hype and fear and uncertainty. The reality is that today’s health care reform plan is more conservative than plans touted by Republicans in the past- and they’re lying about how “unfair” the use of the reconciliation process is.

You know what reconciliation really is? It’s majority rules. You take a vote and if more than 50% of the Senators vote for something, it passes. These guys keep claiming that they represent “the will of the people” but if there’s 59 Senators that vote FOR something, and 41 Senators that vote AGAINST something, how is that not the “will of the people”?

The reality is that the people, when polled, favor things like guaranteed issue and the public option. The public favors those things by wide margins. It’s not even close. So why does the right wing pretend that the public doesn’t want these things?

Two reasons. First, they don’t want the Democrats and President Obama to get a political “win”. They don’t care about doing what’s right, or what the public wants; they just want to hurt Democrats, and if it hurts the nation at the same time, oh well. Second, they are indebted to the insurance companies that want to kill health care reform.

Thus you get guys like Grassley now going against something HE suggested earlier, and Hatch saying that reconciliation is a terrible thing even though he voted on the side of using it several times in the past.

Hypocrites. These people don’t deserve to be Senators.

Another day, another right-wing politician calls for treason:

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could “empathize” with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to “implode” other IRS offices, according to a witness.

I don’t really know what more to say. What’s disgusting is that these guys keep getting re-elected, despite the fact that they obviously hate the very government that they’re supposed to be a part of. What’s more, they swear an oath to serve and protect the United States.

OMG I just about peed my pants laughing when I saw this news… Sarah Palin gave the keynote speech to the first “Tea Party Convention”. (And for all you teabagger types who proclaim what a grassroots effort the whole Tea Party thing is, did you realize that the convention was for-profit, and that Palin got a six-figure appearance fee?)

And guess what? She put her crib notes onto her hand for the brief Q&A session that followed her speech.

Seriously. I couldn’t make this up:




(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcVMTZkTZQ&feature=player_embedded for those who don’t see the video above)

Awesome. In case you think the video is faked, check this out; it’s an AP photo taken during her speech that shows the notes on her palm…

Here’s some closer shots of the notes:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4337216550_4fc4343589_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4337216594_f654772641_o.jpg

And here’s the CNN video of the the incident, and at about 1:23 in she checks her palm where the first word is “energy” and then she rambles on about energy for the next minute or so.

(go to http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/02/06/palin.tea.party.qa.cnn for those who can’t see the video embedded.)