Wednesday Stuff

Note to the pathetic Max Baucus, Kent Conrad (still laughing over the Dem-sponsored commercials on health care reform in his state, I'm sure) and every one of these corporatist losers - this is what a member of your party is supposed to sound like on this issue.

And by the way, Mr. President, you'd better have ample doses of the same "piss and vinegar" Richard Trumka has here when you give your speech next week, or else you'll continue to slide in the polls (with right-wing demagogues like Brooks and Krauthammer telling you, as always, that the way to "save yourself" is keep kissing off the people who elected you to begin with).

Am I more than a little fed up with having to continue posting on this? You're damn right.

As I and others have said many times already, the Bushies were never shy about kicking and screaming for what they wanted at every turn, which was nothing but destructive to this country. If you don't respond in kind for what is good for the country instead, then be prepared to serve only one term.

(And by the way, for Philly-area folk, there will be a demonstration for the public option tomorrow at noon in front of the offices of Independence Blue Cross at 1900 Market Street in Philadelphia)...



Update 1 9/3/09: Daily Kos diarist politicjock tells us the following here...

...during the heated August health care debate MSNBC outperformed CNN by 61 percent and FNC by 4 percent in the key 18-34 demographic in prime time. Let me restate this, the cable news channel which has been the most vocal in support of the public option (Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed Shultz) and, to a certain extent, single payer, was also the #1 news network among younger viewers during the month of August when all the kooks were supposedly coming out of the woods against health care reform.

This is still more proof that the Republican Party has relegated itself to minority party status for a generation – unless, of course, the Democrats cave and refuse to stand up for what they're supposed to believe in, which, sadly, is always a distinct possibility.

Update 2 9/3/09: And here is a sane, compassionate point of view on this from today's Bucks County Courier Times (shocking, I know).

...and 48 seconds is about all I can take of this idiot (and he LOST MORE SPONSORS today, huh? Terrific - if anyone else wants to bail, click here...God, does he even have any left?)...



...and congratulations to new corporate media news anchor Diane Sawyer of ABC News, taking over for Charlie Gibson who will no doubt contemplate the intricacies of capital gains taxation now on his spare time (as a reminder, I should note that Gibson asked about that twice during a McCain/Obama debate last year - and by the way, Diane, "Mickey" doesn't approve of drinking on the job)...



Update 9/3/09: I should have noted above that this was the reason why I took a shot at Sawyer (h/t to Atrios for jogging my memory).

...and either some or all of this video was shot in Philadelphia, by the way.