Audio- NPR highlights history of reconciliation in health care legislation

Republicans pawned.

Doonesbury: Obama loses NPR edition

By GottaLaff

Trudeau has concentrated on a story arc about how President Obama has been losing support from those he could previously count on:

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AUDIO- NPR corners Michael Steele on health care reform

By GottaLaff

Poor Michael Steele. He actually had to face an interviewer who challenged him, and all he could say was:

"You're doing a wonderful little dance here and you're trying to be cute."

Via NPR:



Michael, Michael, Michael, as I mentioned in a post about Mark "STFU Already" Sanford, know when to stop. Okay? Okay:

[...] Steele told Inskeep this: "No one is trying to scare people with sound bites. I have not done that."

Oh, really? Here's what he said on "Morning Joe" last week: "[T]here’s clearly an attempt by at least the House members to put in place a structure that causes concern for the American people in respect to end of life decisions. I think that’s a legitimate point. You don’t have to call it death panels if you don’t want to. You can call it a panel. I call it rationing."

And here's his Washington Post op-ed from Monday: "[W]e need to outlaw any effort to ration health care based on age. Obama has promoted a program of 'comparative effectiveness research' that he claims will be used only to study competing medical treatments. But this program could actually lead to government boards rationing treatments based on age... Obama's government-run health 'reform' would pay for seniors' meetings with a doctor to discuss end-of-life care. While nonthreatening at first, something that is quite normal for a family to do becomes troublesome when the government gets involved. Seniors know that government programs that seem benign at first can become anything but. The government should simply butt out of conversations about end-of-life care and leave them to seniors, their families and their doctors."

Actually, keep talking, Aluminuminuminum. Not only is it entertaining, but the hole you're digging for yourself and your party is big enough to hold, well, and elephant.

NewsHour - Karen Tumulty & Matt Bai: Obama's public health plan options

Quote-O'-The-Day: NPR edition

By GottaLaff

NPR Tweet:

Best line in my NPR story tonight, RE: Congress: "The only bipartisanship to be found is WITHIN the Democratic party."

Michele Norris of NPR on "Change"

Wonderful stuff. Hope it spreads like wildfire. h/t GOS.

"I've been struck as we talk about change on a big level, what I've been hearing closer to the street -- in Chicago, in Pennsylvania, here in Washington, DC -- how many young black men are talking about change in their lives. At barbershops, someone told me that twelve people have come in and cut off their dreadlocks, talking about joining the army, talking about, you know, 'forget about the saggy pants,' pulling their pants up, leading their life in a different way. I think it's really interesting because we talk about change in buildings, and this election has really inspired change on a very personal level."

5 Best-Informed News Audiences

Hardball? Wow.

People who read, listened to, or viewed these news sources scored the best on a political knowledge test

1. The New Yorker

2. The Atlantic

3. Harper's Magazine

4. NPR

5. Hardball

Source: Pew Research Center

Cliff Schecter to appear on ... FOX! And NPR radio!

By GottaLaff

I just IMed Cliff Schecter, and apparently, he had quite the heated conversation on Fox with Terry Neal (he thinks that's who it was).

This will air tomorrow, Saturday morning at 11:30 am Eastern, on Fox.

Next:

Today he will be on Los Angeles Public radio at 2:30 Eastern. You can listen live here.

Finally:

Later today at 4 pm Eastern, he'll be on the Neil Cavuto Show on, yes, Fox. After he taped the show that will air tomorrow morning (see above), they invited him to be on Cavuto.

Happy viewing/listening! And congratulations, CliffDoggy!