Taming the Deficit with Health Care Reform

Monday, July 6th, 2009

For all you deficit hawks out there, fretting that universal health care coverage would bankrupt the country, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post offers an interesting graph, showing what might happen to our deficit situation, if we adopt european-style health care. The rising line — that's the status quo/GOP + ...

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The Idiots Are Coming! The Idiots Are Coming!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Forgive me Dear Reader, it has been 5 months since my last confession post. A lot has happened since AnyIdiot went dark: My marriage nearly collapsed from neglect, partly because a PIG lives in my head, and partly because I was putting so much time into this blog and posting at ...

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LEST WE FORGET: The Real Bush Legacy

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Last Friday Countdown's Keith Olbermann brilliantly cataloged the Real Bush Legacy. The MSNBC crew finally got around to posting the transcript of the Friday (1/16/2009) show - as if they had more important things to do, sheesh! So print this out and keep it handy when the Republicans skulking around your ...

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Kicking the Grenade Down the Road

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

And now for a little more Bush Legacy Whitewash: BBC News 12/17/2008 Blackwater should be dropped as the main private security contractor for US diplomats in Iraq, a US State Department panel has recommended. Its report, commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says the company's contract should not be renewed when ...

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Bob Conley Debates Lindsey Graham on SC ETV: First Impressions

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Saturday, Oct. 11 at 8 p.m., GOP incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Bob Conley Embed: [Originally posted at Indigo Journal] If I weren't aware of Lindsey Graham's recent deplorable history and sycophantic devotion to Bush/McCain policy, I'd have to call the Conley-Graham debate Saturday night a slam-dunk for Graham. The man clearly ...

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