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Tom Coburn said that Americans should pray for “some Senator” to be unable to make it in to vote for the health care bill on Sunday. He said this during a dangerous snowstorm, transparently hoping that someone (such as 92 year old Senator Byrd) would have a car crash or worse, since that is what it would take for the 60 Senator total needed to overcome the minority filibuster not to be assembled. This morning, during the second and crucial procedural vote, his prayers were answered. Jim Inhofe didn’t bother to show up.

Sheldon Whitehouse lays into the Republican Party. They deserve it.

Having been skillfully maneuvered into this position by a combination of corporations, Republicans, and sellout Democrats, Krugman argues that not passing the bill is a worse alternative than passing it. Although he is probably correct, we really don’t know what “the bill” is. The crucial details are being concealed from the public through the legislative process, on purpose, and whether that is for good or bad reasons, I am still not sure. The most important lesson from all of this is not “all Democrats are sellouts,” but instead, that we need better representatives in Congress, starting with better Democrats.

On principle, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced a single-payer health care amendment, although it has no chance of passing. Immediately, Tom Coburn demanded that the entire bill be read out loud in the US Senate. It’s 767 pages long. There are two things that can be learned from this, 1) The Democrats are about to pass a health care bill of some sort and 2) Tom Coburn and the GOP are desperate to delay the vote as long as possible, because the majority is ready to pass it.

Of course not; it would remove many opportunities to “misunderstand” and lie about the facts. Franken is essentially calling Thune a lying liar here.

Thanks to CREW, the National Security Archive, and the American voters, we will see these e-mails, which include the time period of the falsification of intelligence for the Iraq war and the outing of Valerie Plame.

This murder case was being investigated by Danny Casolaro at the time of his death.

His clowning continuesduring the same week it was announced that this is the hottest decade on record. This puts the whole Republican Party in the same category as the extremist denier Jim Inhofe.

This is really bad news and another sign of the times for the newspaper industry.

This is the second time in the last month (sorry I don’t have the other example handy) that Faux News has put up a graphic from a poll that adds up to more than 100% of the people supposedly responding. It certainly raises, if not answers, the question “how stupid do they think we are?” It also makes me wonder, how close to this graphic, chronologically, did Faux also lament the “sorry state of education” in math, etc., among US schoolchildren.