BargainCountertenor

Olympia Snowe appears to be vulnerable to a primary challenge from the right in Maine. Quelle suprise, non?

Per TPM, who got it from the AP, Bush 41 isn't going to be at Ted Kennedy's funeral.

Scott Roeder was arraigned today on charges of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Roeder pleaded not guilty.

Congressman Teague's staff say he will back a reform bill with a strong public option, and agrees that voting "No" on a bad bill is important. They aren't sure that a health care reform bill without a strong public option is necessarily a bad bill.

Say it isn't so, Shoeless Joe! The health insurance industry cooked the books it uses to determine Usual, Customary and Reasonable charges.

The last time we were able to win a big round in the health care system was 1965 and Medicare. A Sacred Trust by Richard Harris is the history of that struggle. A very young Teddy Kennedy wrote the introduction to my copy.

Okay, the truth is, I didn't get to talk to Harry. But I did make what should be a very useful contact.

David didn't resign after he screwed Bathsheba. Why should Sanford resign after bawling with Maria de Buenos Aires?

Insomnia sux. I wrote this ditty for Mark Sanford, to be sung to the tune of How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? from The Sound of Music. Apologies to the spirits of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Jr, and thanks to Governor Sanford for the just-barely-publishable e-mails. All that was missing was a falafel...

W Bush isn't the only politician who believes phone calls are more useful than polling data. What's up with that? I look at New Mexico's Senate Bill 12 (a domestic partnership bill) and the kerfuffle over a public option in health care reform.