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!

“THE ‘AYES’ HAVE IT. CONGRESSMAN WILSON HAS TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT OBAMA’S BUTLER.”

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Even Joe Wilson’s Wife Knows a Nut When She Sees One, at All Hat No Cattle.

“THIS IS THE KIND OF BIBLICAL ‘EYE FOR AN EYE’ APPROACH THAT WE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO BE MORE RECEPTIVE TO, ALTHOUGH WE COULD HAVE BEEN HARSHER WITH A RESOLUTION TO ‘SMITE’ HIM, OR TO HAVE HIM CIRCUMCISED … WHICH BY THE WAY, HE’D BE FULLY COVERED FOR UNDER HIS GOVERNMENT HEALTH PLAN.”

“UNDER AN AMENDMENT TO THE BILL, ANY DISTRICT WHOSE REPRESENTATIVE VOTED AGAINST IT, WILL GET NOTHING BUT A THREE-PACK OF TROJANS AND A BAG OF SOD.”

“WE’RE NOT GONNA’ ACTUALLY USE ‘EM IN THE OLYMPICS, BUT TRADE ‘EM TO SAUDI ARABIA FOR SOME MORE OIL.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

The Obama-McCain Town Hall Meetings That Weren’t: An Opportunity Missed, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

100K Signatures for Impeachment Delivered to Pelosi, at Crooks & Liars.

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

10. Even with your back to the TV, you cringe with recognition of Richard Perle’s voice on Hardball.

9. When your wife starts to play with your family jewels, you say “wait ’till after Bill Maher’s New Rules.”

8. You’ll root against a sports team just because they’re from a Red State.

7. When you ask someone their “sign,” you mean Jesus Fish or Darwin Fish.

6. You use “Picture-in-Picture” to watch Russert and Stephanopoulous.

5. You think the New York Times is really controlled by the Editorial Board of the Wall St. Journal.

4. Your idea of multitasking is reading Daily Kos while listening to NPR.

3. You’re all for “mixed marriages,” except for the one between Matalin and Carville.

2. You oppose capital punishment in all cases — with the possible exception of Chris Matthews.

1. Although you’re ACLU on personal privacy, you advocate warrantless strip searches of the Right-Wing Blondes — to check if their carpets really match their drapes.