Teddy Partridge

Really, it doesn't get much worse than this: a man injured on the job whose injury resulted in his leg being amputated below the knee. He can't get a prosthetic leg from the manufacturer because he has no health insurance. And since he can't work without a leg, he can't get a job that might offer health insurance.

Arkansans who speak with our Eve at the Little Rock health fair today are embarrassed that they can't afford to go to the dentist or the doctor. They seem almost ashamed that they don't have the finances to pay for health insurance.

Overlooked in the discussion of the Catholic Bishops' heartfelt moral compulsion to intervene in the health care reform debate to ensure no woman assisted with federal dollars ever gets an abortion is the business assist the Bishops get from Stupak-Pitts.

Despite Bart Stupak's July letter announcing his intent to submit an amendment to health care reform further restricting American women's reproductive rights, Village insider Ellen Malcolm waited until TODAY to sound the alarm, while list-building and fundraising on a purported petition to Harry Reid to "Stop Stupak."

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), who is challenging incumbent longest-serving governor and all-around goodhair Rick Perry, announced today that she won't leave her Senate seat until she beats him in the primary next March.

Have you signed the petition asking President Obama not to escalate in Afghanistan? Please watch this video and sign here.

Dianne Feinstein has joined the Fiscal-Scold-Seven to put her foot down on Social Security and Medicare: she won't vote to raise the debt ceiling (required within a month or Uncle Sam defaults) without a law establishing a "bipartisan commission" that's sure to ruin Baby Boomer benefits just as the Democratic coalition cracks over choice and Stupak.

Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell (R) announced today she won't seek re-election in 2010.

Bribery is bribery, and there's no excusing it in our public officials. But in the "punishment fits the crime" department, there's something wrong with the proposed sentence of Dollar Bill Jefferson when you compare it to that handed down to Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

Just got an email from Organizing For America *DNC* asking me to thank my representative (Nancy Pelosi) for passing health care last night, and asking me to write a letter to the editor thanking her and Obama for passing health care in the House. Here's what I wrote: