Mitch McConnell on the Supreme Court’s Ruling Allowing Unfettered Corporate Political Advertizing.

On Thursday, January 21^st the five conservative jesters on the Supreme Court (the same five who decided that counting votes is irrelevant to elections) ignored the courts usual reluctance to overturn several established precedents and voted to give corporations all of the free speech rights of individuals.

I have written a couple posts noting my reaction to this, but I didn’t have time to highlight the single slimiest response to this ruling. This nauseating stream of verbal diarrhea spewed from the mouth of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Obama’s State Of The Union Shows How The Democrats Can Join The Tea-Party and Win In November

It goes without saying (so why am I saying it?) that no one on the right liked the content of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union speech, and many on the left were less than impressed by what they considered a conservative turn in many of his proposals. Many liberal/progressive commentators (e.g. Rachel Maddow and Kieth Olbermann, both of whom are usually very insightful) interpreted Obama’s proposals as attempts to ingratiate himself with the Republicans in congress who, these commentators correctly note, will continue to game any movement toward bipartisanship.

President Obama, however, was not reaching out to Republicans in congress, they are—despite Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts—largely irrelevant. They have taken themselves out of the game and can do little more than heckle the players from the bench.

Instead President Obama was reaching out to the seething angry mob of populists

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To My Senators: Strong Health Care Reform is Essential; Bad Health Care Reform Legislation Will End Democratic Dominance in 2010

Below you will find the text of a letter I am sending to my Senators. I urge all my readers to use the link: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and write your senator, encouraging them to support the public option and the end of the anti-trust exemption for the insurance industry as essential parts of any healthcare reform bill. Now is the time to increase agitation for robust reform.]

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Healthcare Reform: The Coming Train Wreck, An Open Letter To My Senators

Dear Senator Boxer/ Feinstein: 

I am strongly for healthcare reform and for a strong public option, but as I follow the Baucus Bill as it rumbles through the Senate, I feel like I am watching two trains running full speed, coming from different directions along a single track; and there is no way I can prevent the coming wreck.

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Healthcare Reform: Barack Obama the True Believer vs. McCain the Sophist

We will hear tomorrow how, even though he begged for bipartisanship until our ears bled, President Obama's speech on healthcare was too partisan—which I suppose means he did not embrace the cynical Republican call to abandon what has been done and start over. Even President Obama is not that naïve!

The President does, however, have the naïveté to believe that there remain some Republicans more focused on serving the public rather than the Republican Party who will truly join in a bipartisan effort on healthcare reform. He also hopes that some call to patriotism or moral necessity will touch what remains of their hearts. Within hours of the President's speech, John McCain proved that Obama might as well hope to find the Loch Ness monster in his bathtub.

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