Those failed real estate loans *never* would have happened had the Democrats not forced loans to be made to unqualified minority applicants!

At least, that's the way Fox "news" will spin it.

I eagerly await Colbert's views on the Marvel apology. As a Cap fan, he can't be happy, even if he *does* agree with the teabaggers...I just hope that, what with the Winter Olympics, he has time to address this important story.

""It's really sad to see what has traditionally been a pro-America figure being used to advance a political agenda.""

Yeah; imagine that: Captain America's patriotism being dumbed down to meet "teh stoopid curve" of teabaggers. Next thing y'know, Jean-Luc Picard won't be allowed to even mention "Earl Grey" on those TNG reruns....

Somewhere there's a preacher who's getting ready to claim Clinton's problem is a result of his congregation's paying.

As I sit here going bankrupt over trying to find a way to pay my Anthem Blue Cross Monthly Premium,

I couldn't help but feel ill upon listening how brazenly and casually it was declared/assumed on MSNBC (by a fairly well known correspondent/guest whose name is escaping me, who was chiming in re: Clinton's medical care at this New York Hospital..someone not typically on that show(?)...

Anyway, he asserted that naturally
Clinton would very likely be operated on by this prominent Physican (the Chief of Surgery/Physicans)--

And what is the reason?

"given his stature" so said this guy..well, of course.

No-one blinked. I think this was on Chris Mathews Show, but it may have been Andrea Mitchell.

In any case..

Isn't this unquestioned assumption and this sort of commenting re: "his stature" just naturally warranting the best without question precisely why we look to Health Reform, for crying out loud?

To at the very least appear as though we're trying to even out the playing field with regard to health care?

Why should any of us get any less treatment than Clinton? Is he royalty? Of divine entity that requires the Chief Surgeon to intervene..but of course..no-one else should do, right?

"GIVEN HIS STATURE"

Look, I realize the guy was clueless when he made this remark, but I find it incredibly telling.

We all clearly wish Clinton the best, but this is just the most disgusting health care system we have..it's so flagrantly elitist that

Yep..They're not embarrassed to say that..in the middle of this Health Care battle..this is the crux of it, after all, is it not?..We ALL deserve that Chief Surgeon!

Let alone speedy response and a fantastic hospital and complete coverage and continuity of care from the same place that treated us before.

Too bad we don't have the money, power or prestige Clinton does.

And it's too bad that Obama doesn't get it either. Once you're in, you forget. And then you become them, make excuses, equivocate.

It's very easy to forget..

Unless you take pains to remember.

Tomorrow on Washington Monthly:

Obama announces that bunker-busting-bombing has begun on Iran's alleged nuclear enrichment facilities. Mr. Benen notes that complaints from Republicans about Obama's bombing strategy are a bit rich, even hypocritical, since Obama is doing the very thing the Republicans themselves proposed in 2007!

Jonathan Chait, Jonathan Adler, Joshua Marshall, Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias all agree it's very smart policy by Obama.

Offending the terrorists is the best one yet! I mean, what a fucking idiot.. Really, Sarah Palin is now in mensa!

SPEAKER PELOSI PROMOTES RECONCILIATION

In her interview with Roll Call, Pelosi ... used some of her bluntest language yet to defend the use of reconciliation as something that has been used with regularity by Republican and Democratic presidents alike.

"We have set the stage for that. It's important for us to remind the American people of the inconsistency that the Republicans have in saying this is unusual. No, five times President Bush used it. ... This is what the Republicans did to pass their bills, their tax cuts for the rich," Pelosi said.

ROLL CALL

Re; John McCain -- People who have seen those close to them falter as they age and begin to forget, who need prompting from old friends to remember what to say, who really do not remember what they said last year or ten years ago (but are probably pretty sharp on what happened forty years ago when they were young and heroic) are not surprised by McCain's fumbles . The humiliation, I think, belongs to those close to him who do not protect him from public scrutiny right now, although he is a perfect emblem of whatever used to be remotely respectable about Republican theory. Congressmen and women get very good health care as a rule, but age, and some if its frailties, are not stoppable.

Maybe Mr. Clinton got exceptional care, but what happened to Mr. Murtha? Seems he died from "complications" from gall bladder surgery. Guess his "stature" does not rise up to that of a former POTUS. The best health care available in the world worked 50% of the time. Huzzah!

I need to pick up a copy of that Captain America.

Somewhere there's a preacher who's getting ready to claim Clinton's problem is a result of his congregation's paying.

I was assuming that you actually meant "praying," but with those Holy Roller super-churches, it's pretty much the same thing.

Maybe Mr. Clinton got exceptional care, but what happened to Mr. Murtha? Seems he died from "complications" from gall bladder surgery. Guess his "stature" does not rise up to that of a former POTUS. The best health care available in the world worked 50% of the time. Huzzah!

Sorry, you missed the bus. Insanity already beat you to the petty, mean-spirited concern trolling spot, and he did it with several times the wasted space and time, a modicum of rational sense, and good measure more of self-righteous pomposity!

Bill Clinton has led a long life of public service, earned every dollar he ever made, and I'm glad he's getting the best possible care. I rather expect Mr. Murtha also got first rate care. Both of them deserved it.

Actually, neither individual named is a concern troll, and both are known for well-received and insightful posts. I can't go all the way to agreeing Bill Clinton "earned every dollar he ever made" (when was the last time you made $300,000.00 in 24 hours for making two short speeches?), although I've always liked and respected him - except for a brief interval when he made some pretty mean remarks when it looked like his wife was going to lose the Democratic nomination.

But it takes a big set of brass ones to infer "pomposity" when somebody says they're having trouble paying their health-insurance premiums, given America's current woes.

I don't pay a penny for health care. I live under a single-payer system, and the country hasn't gone broke - in fact, it emerged from the recession with the strongest economy on the planet (according to the IMF), because the government was cautious and didn't jump on the deregulation bandwagon. But from what I've seen in a few years of experience, there are only four things that dare raise their costs by arrogant leaps - cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline and health insurance (in America). Those are things that people will continue to pay ridiculous prices for, until they're priced out of reach. It's disgraceful to think that people will die this year, this month, this week in the richest country on earth, because they can't afford health insurance for the medical care that would have saved their lives.

I hope none of them are in your family, or among your friends. America's health insurance industry is a dirty plague of greedy locusts, and a discredit to the nation. Wrap that up in a thin layer of pompous, and shove it.

Roland Martin on Palin, Texan style. I didn't realize she defended Rush and his use of retard.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/11/roland.martin.palin/index.html?iref=allsearch

I hope none of them are in your family, or among your friends. America's health insurance industry is a dirty plague of greedy locusts, and a discredit to the nation. Wrap that up in a thin layer of pompous, and shove it.

Thanks for the thick layer of self-righteous diversion from the point of my comment, which was about crude, pointless Clinton-bashing.

My brother-in-law died just three weeks ago in part because he was to terrified of losing his house and the remnants of his dignity if he visited a real doctor and got his failing liver diagnosed. I managed to restrain myself and didn't stand up at his funeral and pick apart the polite comments about his life and health in the interest of preaching to the well-wishers about the failings of our medical services.

However much I might personally despise the American health system that killed that harmless man, a concern troll is still a concern troll, and dumb comparisons between Clinton and Murtha are still crude and dumb.

On Facebook, I saw a lament that "More and more, this world is feeling like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party." ! I wonder how often the Mad Hatter has been associated with the teabagger movement, it would be a good way to tease about them.

I wonder how much liberal media attention bush would've received if he mispronounced corpsman as "corpseman" (which was, no doubt, a freudian slip by obama, after all they are *only* the military).

How much media attention did any possible flaws in Bush's reckless action that created many more real corpses in Iraq get? Not until it was too late.

Mark,

“I can't go all the way to agreeing Bill Clinton "earned every dollar he ever made" (when was the last time you made $300,000.00 in 24 hours for making two short speeches?)...”

President Clinton’s booking agent stated he COULD book him to speak EVERY SINGLE DAY of the week, that’s how voluminous the requests are.

“...although I've always liked and respected him - except for a brief interval when he made some pretty mean remarks when it looked like his wife was going to lose the Democratic nomination.”

Never happened.

I assume you are referencing the South Carolina primary, when President Clinton’s remarks were despicably twisted ? For the record, his exact quote was:

“Jesse Jackson won in South Carolina twice in '84 and '88 and he ran a good campaign. And Senator Obama's run a good campaign. He's run a good campaign everywhere. He's a good candidate with a good organization.”

Exactly which other Democratic presidential candidate did you want him to compare Obama to ? The only other two winners in modern political history were Edwards, who garnered a much lower 45% of the vote in South Carolina, and Clinton himself, who won a far larger majority than either Obama or Jackson.

Clinton knew, which you obviously didn’t, that it was Obama and Jackson that received very similar percentages of the vote in that primary, hence the quite apt comparison.