Longtime Lieberman mouthpiece Dan Gerstein is portrayed in Politico as a “Democratic political consultant” whenever they need someone to run down the Democrats or, as today, tout the Republicans. Who still hires this hack, and how can they defend that now?

The health care summit shows positive signs of hope for clean energy trends.

Obama and Republicans discuss Tort Reform at the Health Insurance Reform Summit

Thursday’s developments perfectly sum up the completely ineffective nature of Obama and the Democrats: the Patriot Act was extended and there were hours of staged histrionics on health care reform that will go nowhere.

Speaker Pelosi used her closing comment at today’s Health Care Reform Summit to remind the President that he once claimed to support the public option.

Welcome to part three of the "Battle of Blair House". Jon Walker has done yeoman’s work in the first half of this summit. I just hope that I can do as well. You can find the first two parts of this mammoth live blog at the links below. Part OnePart Two The four areas of [...]

Bugs Bunny as manicurist talks about making Mitch McConnell all pretty for the health care summit on C-Span. Oh, my, you have such INteresting lie-ins!

It’s Thursday, February 25th, 2010. Today is the big day! It’s Health Care Bowl 1, being held inside of the Blair House in Washington DC, but the real action might be taking place outside of the Blair House, where Moveon.Org and the TeaPartiers will be protesting outside. I’ve got money on the Teapartiers in the eleventh round, technical knockout, but not before they are penalized repeatedly for hitting below the belt.

Seriously, these two groups may just charge each other.

But the main event today is what Politicalpartypooper is doing.

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger

President Barack Obama’s February 25 health care summit, where he will appear on TV with Republican leaders, has been hailed and assailed as yet another gesture towards bipartisanship. But the summit is really a delaying tactic. It’s a decoy, something shiny to keep the chattering classes entertained while Congressional Democrats wheel and deal furiously behind the scenes.