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2010-02-18T19:27:34Z

pinson Commented on Obama Administration Demands Justification For Blue Cross Rate Increase by Christina Bellantoni

2010-02-08T21:40:42Z

My wife and I were paying around $1,200/month for Kaiser coverage out here in CA - I'm self-employed. We'd switched from Blue Cross a few years back because it was more expensive. If Blue Cross gets what they want, family coverage in the state is going to be around $20k per year. This is a big F-U to the administration. WellPoint thinks they've scuttled HCR and are now free to do whatever they want. Lovely. Talk about a job killer.

pinson Commented on Reid To Obama On Nominees: Little Help Here, Buddy? by Brian Beutler

2010-02-04T19:46:50Z

Exactly. The message is a no-brainer: Obstruction = antiAmerica and pro-terrorist. The GOP is a traitorous and malevolent foce that needs to be stopped. Every democrat in Washington should be screaming this all day every day. But no. They stand around and do nothing. Oh, Scott Brown wants his swearing in moved up so that you can actually make our lives MORE miserable? Sure! We can do that for you! Idiots.

pinson Commented on Filmmaker Behind ACORN Stings Arrested For Attempted Phone Tampering At Landrieu's Office by Justin Elliott

2010-01-26T21:50:29Z

Good one!

pinson Commented on Getting It Done: The Year In Obama-Led Health Care Reform (VIDEO) by Ben Craw

2010-01-22T20:32:54Z

This was not "must see video."

pinson Commented on Dem Talking Points: We're Screwed! by Brian Beutler

2010-01-20T20:24:47Z

Hey, I know, how about they pass a punitive and mean-spirited bankruptcy bill to screw consumers and reward Larry Summers and his pals on Wall Street. Oh wait, Joe Biden already took care of that.

pinson Commented on Tea Party Nation To Rhode Island Members: Cross Border For Brown This Weekend by Christina Bellantoni

2010-01-15T21:12:25Z

Wow, I'll bet all eleven Teabaggers living in the Ocean State show up. Teabag Strike Force ZOMG!

pinson Commented on Democrats Fear Trends In MA-Sen Race Spell Trouble For Fall Elections by Christina Bellantoni

2010-01-13T17:22:38Z

I agree. Christina usually delivers solid reporting, but this is just ridiculous:

Democrats have told TPMDC privately that Coakley is suffering in this race because of growing anger over spending and frustration with the party in power.

Which democrat told you this, Christina, Juan Williams? Cokie Roberts? Pathetic. Why in the world would you ever provide anonymity to someone providing such pedestrian "information."

pinson Commented on Former Bush Attorney Charged With Trying To Kill His Wife by Rachel Slajda

2010-01-07T21:36:37Z

The Bushes are as East Coast Establishment as East Coast Establishment gets. W was born in Connecticut. Texas was simply a more convenient political base for the family.

pinson Commented on VIDEO: Ensign Ambushed By CNN On Sex-Lobbying Scandal by Zachary Roth

2009-12-31T22:11:16Z

Let's not forget that Ensign had every expectation that the Hampton/adultery issue would not be brought up, because that's exactly how the media has operated for decades. Only DFH's get questioned seriously. Marcy Wheeler says "blowjob" on the air? All apologies for letting a non-serious hippie onto our show!! Idiot son of the rich senator caught in a flagrant adultery and hush-money scandal? Let's talk about how Obama allowed one of his African buddies to blow up a plane over Detroit. MAYBE one uncomfortable question toward the end, which he could blithely dismiss. Kudos to Sanchez for making him repeat his lame denials for five full minutes.

pinson Commented on Help TPM Scour White House Visitors Logs by Christina Bellantoni

2009-12-31T04:36:20Z

Does Rush realize we're at war??!?!? And he's just hanging out in that unamerican Island hellhole? Do they even have hospitals and doctors in Hawaiikenyastan?

pinson Commented on WH Hits Back: Obama 'Doesn't Need To Beat His Chest To Prove' Nation Is At War by Christina Bellantoni

2009-12-30T21:47:53Z

Awesome. More like this please.

pinson Commented on Blame It On Antigua! The Forbidden 'Love' Of Pete Sessions And Allen Stanford by Zachary Roth

2009-12-28T17:43:24Z

More terrible news for the democrats...

pinson Commented on Franken Cuts Lieberman Off, Won't Let Him Finish Floor Speech (VIDEO) by Rachel Slajda

2009-12-17T21:54:02Z

See Harry? This is how it's done.

pinson Commented on Nelson: Health Care Bill Is Improved, But I Still Can't Support It Yet by Brian Beutler

2009-12-17T20:30:36Z

Rhoda, I was referring to Majority Leader Johnson. The guy who managed to get the first signicant civil rights legislastion passed in 1957.

Historians Caro and Dallek consider Lyndon Johnson the most effective Senate majority leader in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_johnson#Senate_Democratic_leader