It is a dark time for the Health Care Reformers.  Although the Insurance Company Death Panels have been destroyed, Insurance Lobbyists and Blue Dogs have driven the Reform forces from their Congressional offices and pursued them across the Washington Mall. 
      Evading the dreaded Imperial Republicans, a group of public option freedom fighters led by Ron Wyden and Nancy Pelosi have established a new secret base in one of Keith Olbermann’s health clinics in the remote ice world of Mt. Olympia Snowe.
    The evil lord Mitch McConnell, obsessed with filibustering health reform, has dispatched thousands of remote anal probe examinations with hefty co-pays and deductibles into the far reaches of Democratic sphincters ….

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Jon Perr on how Americans are already self-rationing health care.

Lisa Casey on the fall, and fall, of the Republican Party.

Check out Marty’s excellent entertainment page at BartCopE!

“NOT ONLY WILL WE KEEP PLAYING THIS OVER AND OVER ON A CONTINUOUS LOOP, BUT WE’RE GONNA’ SUPPORT LEGISLATION REQUIRING KEITH OLBERMANN TO GET HIS HEALTH INSURANCE FROM THE FOX NEWS OPTION.”

Special Comment at HufffPost, and  P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash: The politics of the public option withers on.

“WELL DONE, SIR. WE ON THE LEFT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO LAUGH AT OURSELVES, WHILE THE RIGHT-WING NUT JOBS LACK A SENSE OF HUMOR, AS WELL AS A SENSE OF COMMON SENSE AND HUMAN JUSTICE.”

“YES, THE STARS ARE NOW ALIGNED FOR A BLACK MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND AN INSANE MAN IN THE OUTHOUSE.” 

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BLOGWORTHIES:

BuzzFlash’s Mark Karlin on Ron Reagan’s Support of Obama: The Reagan Era Takes a Detour.

Dan Kurtzman with The 10 Funniest Gaffes of Campaign 2008.

Keith Olbermann with John Cleese, Obama Supporter, at One Good Move.

“TODAY, GERALD FORD WAS EATEN BY WOLVES, AND I WAS BEATEN INTO SUBMISSION BY FOX NEWS AND THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN, WHO WANTED MSNBC TO RID CHRIS MATTHEWS AND OLBERMANN FROM THE ANCHOR CHAIRS.” 

Story at Huffington Post.

“IF MURROW HADN’T MADE HIS SCURRILOUS ATTACK ON JOE McCARTHY IN THE ’50’s, TODAY CHINA WOULD BE A U.S. PUPPET, WE’D STILL HAVE STAY-AT-HOME MOMS, AND KIDS WOULD BE EXPERIMENTING WITH HULA HOOPS INSTEAD OF DRUGS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Based on the latest polls, BuzzFlash’s P.M. Carpenter laments The American Electorate: From Dingbats to Dingoes.  

Palin and Religion; Need something, just pray — at One Good Move.  (God help us!)  

Madkane’s sneak peek at Sarah Palin’s Barracuda Blog.

“YOU’RE RIGHT, KEITH, FOR NOW ON, I’M GONNA’ TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT IF THEY ELECT McCAIN AND MS. HOCKEY MOM … THIS COUNTRY’S GOING STRAIGHT TO H-E-DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS.”

[Crooks & Liars has the Countdown Interview.]

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BLOGWORTHIES:

The GOP’s Close Encounters with the Truth, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

Lisa Casey with the ‘Ghost of Hellish Present.’

John Amato at Crooks & Liars on “Policies Before Personalities.”

Dan Kurtzman with The Week’s Best Late-Night Jokes.

Chris Matthews off the rails again, dubbing Palin “a conservative version” of “Norma Rae” — at Media Matters.

“AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF DESTROYING AMERICA, THE LEAST THEY COULD DO IS HOLD A FUNDRAISER TO TRY TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE.”

“BY MAJORITIES OF THREE TO ONE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY PREFER A ‘CATEGORY FIVE’ HURRICANE, IF IT WOULD CANCEL THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.” 

“MANY ON THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT FEEL THAT A ‘PRICK’ BEGINS AT CONCEPTION, BUT JOHN McCAIN HAS SHOWN THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY GROW INTO ONE MUCH LATER IN LIFE.”