Top 10 Things Bush Will Say or Do in his Farewell Address
It seems that the Bush Administration is committed to conducting at least one more heinous act of torture – a prime-time TV "farewell" on Thursday night.The expected victims: factual reality, common...
View ArticleBreaking: Bush Issues Executive Order Adopting Julian Calendar
I just saw this on the news wires!
View ArticleObama, Wyeth and Pfizer's Disease - Updated
"Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity...
View ArticlePfizer-Wyeth: One More Fix for the Junkie
It looks this morning like Pfizer is going to try to acquire Wyeth in a ~$70 billion deal.This is a terrible deal for science, medicine, the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, the employees of the two...
View ArticleThank You Pfizer for Opening the Door Wider
Q. What does current Pfizer leadership have in common with the Bush Administration?A. Through their ineptitude and lack of character, they, too, will ultimately kill everything they loved. The market...
View ArticleYay for the Stimulus; Now for the Fight that Really Matters
The two major legislative initiatives to address the economic downturn, so far, have been the TARP, originally passed last year, and the Stimulus, passed in the last few days.Both are intuitively...
View ArticlePharma Continues to Pursue Alchemy of 'Too Big to Fail'
Merck announced this morning that it is acquiring Schering Plough for $41 billion, in a continuing effort among pharmaceutical manufacturers to look outside their industry for business models, and to...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
I read in the papers that lawyers face a really tough job market these days.It makes me wonder: with the stimulus bill aimed at sectors like construction and healthcare, are we really doing enough for...
View ArticleBreaking: Taliban, Teabaggers in Advanced Merger Talks
Multiple anonymous sources are now reporting that the Taliban Movement and Teabagger movement are nearing a merger agreement after three weeks of secret negotiations.Futures Markets are reacting...
View ArticleHelpful Advice for Teabaggers: Do's and Don'ts
We all know that the right has a little trouble organizing outside of the pews (except maybe for GOP Congressional staffers pretending to Floridians during the 2000 recount). Its also clear that a lot...
View ArticleThere’s a Chihuahua in the Woods
In an attempt to halt the accelerating disintegration of the Republican Party, and to divert attention from the revelation of Bush-Cheney torture policies, the Republican National Committee has...
View ArticleScene from the CNN Newsroom
A friend of mine smuggled out a transcript from an emergency meeting over at CNN over the weekend. He asked me to share (below), as an insight into the struggles of establishment journalists to be...
View ArticlePalin Blazing the Trail - Are Other Republicans Smart Enough to Follow?
Its taken hardly any time at all for the corporate media's leading infotainment professionals to recognize that Palin's resignation was a poltical master-stroke.And - for once - they're right!
View ArticleCronkite Had Something to Say About Bushism, Too
It would be easy for younger people to conclude that Walter Cronkite was just an icon of the 1960s and 1970s. A great many of the folks on this site probably never once heard "And that's the way it...
View ArticleWhat Should Sarah Palin Call Her Memoir?
So, as of tomorrow, Sarah Palin’s resignation will finally be official.Unfortunately for her rivals for leadership of the Republican Party (Limbaugh, Liddy, Beck), and for the GOP Presidential...
View ArticleSenators, I Have a Simple Question
Senator Landrieu suggested a few days ago that she was unlikely to support a public option.Via TPM:"Asked under what circumstances she would support a public option, Landrieu responded, "[v]ery few, if...
View ArticleWhy Are We Campaigning for "A Public Option?"
I have a basic question about the current framing of the healthcare debate:Exactly how did we end up having to defend "A Public Option"?From a marketing standpoint it makes no sense. And clearly...
View ArticleThere, up in the sky - its a bird... its a plane...
Its your private insurance premiums.Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, its the inexorable, unbounded increases in the premiums insurance companies pull from employer...
View ArticleThe new healthcare reform narrative
Considering it this morning, I think we are buying into a losing narrative on healthcare reform.Please allow me to propose an alternative narrative (below).
View ArticleHow the Republicans Passed Medicare Part D
Back in 2003, the Republicans passed their version of healthcare reform, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (often abbreviated as the MMA). I remember the outrage at the...
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