If you changed the mind of just a handful of public option opponents it was well worth it. As for you Madden I think you wish you had soap box as large.

Soap box envy, probably incurable and may be fatal.

I'd eat your brain, if you had one, since you would consider me a "zombie-like follower". I've seen all of Moore's films, Oh Noz, I'm one of them!

Is accurate we are in big trouble. By my count there were seven right wing pundits in the top 10. I found two in the whole list that I read (or listen to) regularly.

Republicans that like to get high.

It appears Paglia has loosed her own bunch of quasi-democratic, trolltastic doh!bots on the Salon letters section.

Dissident Democrats found their voices, and by late August even the liberal lemmings of the mainstream media, from CBS to CNN, had drastically altered their tone of reportage, from priggish disdain of the town hall insurgency to frank admission of serious problems in the healthcare bills as well as of Obama's declining national support.

Camille discouraged further reading in her first paragraph. Not a record for her, but close.

A much shorter, but more comprehensive list, would be those Senators that are in fact not knuckleheads.

Knuckle head, I am deeply offended.

It appears Joke Line has decided to upgrade the tool he uses to dig his professional grave.

A perfect storm hissy fit by one of the villages most egotistical fools...what's not to like?

While they are cutting us down with assault rifles we can defend ourselves with long winded diatribes and censures. That'll show 'em. Is there a more assertive version of the Democratic party that I could join?

then began to weep hysterically.

is self defeating no matter which side engages in it.

We are frustrated by the very people that should be educating the "low information" public but instead are busy debunking all the myths, nonsense and down right lies.

President Obama should have held a press conference early in his term outlining the differences between our health care system and others in the industrialized nations and carefully explaining why a single payer system would be better than continuing to prop up an industry that does nothing but add to the cost of health care. Obama should have been prepared for a political war but wasn't which makes me suspicious of his sincerity.

of some Democrats is easy to diagnose. The dread of Republicans wailing like banshees loosed from the 5th level of hell has them paralyzed.

You must fear the right wing hissy fit.

"Therefore, it is up to the animals that Vick abused to do the forgiving. Sadly, they don't have that opportunity."

The strange and wonderful thing about dogs is their capacity for forgiveness. They would probably come to Vick and ask for his forgiveness for being abused.

If upon reading the things Mr. Vick was alleged to do to dogs one can say this man is not damaged in a deep way I would say you too need help.

Has Vick been repaired after a few months in jail and loss of income, I doubt it.

To those saying other players have done worse and were able to play doesn't justify Vick, it just highlights the absurdity of the system.

"IF A PUBLIC OPTION WERE GUARANTEED TO REMAIN THAT WAY AND ONLY A SMALL PART OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM, YOU MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE. BUT THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GUARENTEE, SO PUBLIC OPTION IS OFF THE TABLE."

So sayeth the typicalboss.

Tell me who died and made you king?

I could only manage the first page of Paglia putrescence but it sounds as if it ends badly...again.

Just watched him take a question and explain why a single payer system won't work in the US. He says it will be too disruptive.

Someone, anyone, needs to please ask him "disruptive to who"? We know he means it will be the end of health insurance companies as we know them but our president is afraid to articulate this simple fact.

So basically we have to live with substandard to no health care because our leaders don't want to rock the insurance companies boat. Am I wrong about this?

I always find these discussions illuminating in how they show the mentality of the rich. There are a couple of letters here by people I would consider rich and I would like to ask them a couple of questions;

If your car breaks down are you unable to get to work and your lively hood is threatened? Would that car repair bill send you scrambling to find a way to pay for it that doesn't take food off the table?

This is just one example of the many things that constitute a crisis to the "little people".

If the rich have to pay a few more percentage points in taxes to insure that there gated communities won't be stormed by angry mobs of we little people sick to death of their whining about taxes I'd say it's a fair price.

at the faces in the videos of these town hells the thing I miss are the faces of African Americans. Their votes propelled Obama into the Oval Office but they seem MIA here.

My favorite libruls in a war. Can't we just get along? I'm glad Olbermann is back doing his thing. Glenn I would ask restraint in your crusade, he is on the good side I believe. Let him save face it can't mean that much to you.

just had his way with Bill O on hardball asking why he would let his corporate overlords muzzle him. I can't wait for a response from Glenn.