Two heartbeats away…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged her colleagues to back a major overhaul of U.S. health care even if it threatens their political careers, a call to arms that underscores the issue’s massive role in this election year.
The Botox Hag, of course, is safe in her left-of-Castro congressional district so she’s not asking her [...]

Et tu, Bob Herbert?
How loud do the alarms have to get? There is an economic emergency in the country with millions upon millions of Americans riddled with fear and anxiety as they struggle with long-term joblessness, home foreclosures, personal bankruptcies and dwindling opportunities for themselves and their children.
The door is being slammed on the [...]

Still within the margin of ACORN fraud but exciting nonetheless.
Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown has surged ahead of his Democratic opponent Martha Coakley, according to a new poll released Thursday night.
Brown leads Coakley by a margin of 50 percent to 46 percent, the Suffolk University/WHDH-TV poll found. It is the first poll to show [...]

OK, I made that last part up.
Reporting from Beirut – Yemeni security forces killed two suspected Al Qaeda militants today in an operation that also left two alleged fighters wounded, the nation’s official Saba news agency reported.
Amid fears of Al Qaeda attacks against foreign targets, Japan, Germany and France closed their embassies to the [...]

I thought it was just the Republicans and the insurance companies who were dangerous.
A Nigerian man tried to ignite an explosive device aboard a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight as the plane prepared to land in Detroit on Friday, in an incident the United States believes was “an attempted act of terrorism,” according to a [...]

If only Harry Reid was capable of a Grinch-like epiphany.
Senate Democrats are celebrating this morning for passing their version of health care reform, but voters still don’t like much of what they see.
At the start of the week, 41% of voters nationwide were in favor of the health care bill, but 55% were opposed. [...]

Well, he has been promising us a Christmas present.
Republican candidates now have an eight-point lead over Democrats, their biggest lead of the year, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 36% would opt for [...]

This just popped up in my inbox.
The site from the NSRC gives multiple options for contacting the Senators who might be wavering. They’ve even written the tweets for all the Twitter activists.
Hey, it’s better than rolling over and playing dead while the freight train is barreling toward you.

Remember, this is all about hatred for a black man.
We sort of knew that it would be the progressive lefties who would reach for the razor blades first. They were the most ga-ga eyed in the Hope & Change Kool-Aid line because they finally had a president who spoke their language. In their minds, it [...]

A classic example of why I don’t believe any of the snake oil sales pitch about health care costs.
Maybe when you print money all day, it becomes easier to spend.
A Republican congressman is taking a hard look at a program in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing that would give hundreds of senior employees [...]