As soon as this fraudulent "public option" from the federal government moves in, the state minimum-care regulations will be pre-empted and Americans will get the shoddy, deadly, insufferable care like in healthcare ghettos like Canada.

In the U.S. we spend nearly twice as much per capita on health care than Canada, yet we have a lower rate of satisfaction, a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, and we don’t cover everyone the way Canada does.

If Canada is a healthcare ghetto, what does that make us? A healthcare slum?

and someone with empathy, is that the person with empathy would not have to experience it in his own family to be against the injustice of gay inequality. No doubt Cheney would be against torture, were it a member of his family who was being tortured.

And I don’t think that Jonah Goldberg can be the “single most compelling poster child for the ability of white males to advance in America for reasons having to do with everything except merit” as long as we have George W. Bush around.

My previous comment (along with four others) has been ghettoized to an alternate reality. It was made earlier than any of the comments here, so I am assuming some sort of computer glitch. Perhaps Glenn posted his article twice, replacing the original? Could this be an explanation for those people who claim that their letter was censored?

Anyway, rather than re-posting it, click on my name to see my comment.

when you want to kill, torture, or annihilate a group of people is to dehumanize them. Once you can see them as less than human, it is a lot easier to do whatever you want with them. At least it is for that subgroup that grew up pulling the wings off of flies and torturing family pets.

I remember how well that worked in Vietnam. Boy, those were the days, when we could remove governments we didn’t like simply by targeted carpet bombing of their neighbors.

McCain would be busy carrying out Bush’s policy of asserting that every crime committed by the Bush Administration is a national security secret, would declare that no one who tortured in the name of the United States would be prosecuted, and would be denying any request for accountability of the crimes committed by Bush, Cheney, et.al.

We thought we were making a choice, but got an echo.

Words can’t express the crushing betrayal I feel. At my age, I should have known better than to trust a politician. I’m not likely to make that mistake again.

Vitter and Craig should resign. Especially Craig. When that moron was arrested, one of his first statements was (paraphrased) "I didn't know how to plea."

“That moron” hasn’t been in the Senate since January. What are you suggesting that he resign from?

Ask yourself this question: If they had broken any laws wouldn't they have ALREADY been prosecuted?

Are you an economist?

(Old economist joke: Two economists are walking and see a $100 bill lying on the sidewalk. One of them starts to pick it up, but the other one says, “Don’t bother. If it were a real $100 bill, someone would have already picked it up.”)

President Obama has embraced Bush administration justifications for denying public access to White House visitor logs even as advisers say they are reviewing the policy of keeping secret the official record of comings and goings.

I have it on good authority (my imagination) that the reason they are denying access to the White House visitor logs is that Obama is bringing in a “dream team” of prosecutors, including Patrick Fitzgerald, Vincent Bugliosi, Eliot Spitzer, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, and Hamilton Burger to handle the imminent prosecutions of dozens of former Bush administration officials (yes, I know some of these are dead and/or fictional, but it’s my fantasy and I’m sticking with it).

The Washington Post of today is no longer the paper that published the Pentagon Papers, refused to be cowed by the vulgar threats of the then Attorney General of the United States, and led the way on exposing Watergate. The difference is in the leadership at the top. To put it bluntly, Donald Graham doesn’t have the balls his mother had.

The Washington Post has a legacy of greatness. Sadly, that legacy is all it has left. The greatness of the Post is as dead as Katherine Graham.

How do we know Greenwald won't spend the money on a tiara for his baby kitten?

Also, how do I get a Greenwald mug or T-shirt?

Why would you want a mug or T-shirt publicizing someone you suspect of malfeasance?

Other reporters may laugh at Helen Thomas, but what they should be doing is feeling shame -- and learning how to do their jobs.

Spin it any way you want.

She was wrong.

Reversed

So because a perfect storm of freakish events allowed George W. Bush to occupy the White House and appoint two conservative Supreme Court Justices, that makes her wrong?

If the voters’ will had been honored in 2000, and President Gore had nominated two liberal Justices, and the Supreme Court upheld Ricci 5-4, would you be saying that she was right?

There are Supreme Court decisions, and there is what is right. They don’t always agree.

@ Stibber

From what I have read, the administered test was certified, unbiased and used routinely for promotions.

Where are you reading that? Because, according to the facts of the case which were not disputed, this exam was not only not certified, but not ever put through any validation study.

But George Will said that:

“The tests were prepared by a firm specializing in employment exams and were validated, as federal law requires, by independent experts.”

George Will wouldn’t get his facts wrong, would he?

From the previews I’ve unavoidably seen and your review, I don’t thing “Brüno” is good for anyone.