Desperately seeking a healthcare-reform scapegoat, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee takes clear aim for insurance companies Republicans Max Baucus Bart Stupak Joe Lieberman Rahm Emanuel?

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Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 [AP]

The Governator takes on the ex-Governor over global-warming denial:

The California governor has become an environmental standard bearer for the Republican party, which is split on the merits of curbing emissions. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has attacked cap and trade and questioned any link between man-made emissions and global warming.

“You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?” said Mr Schwarzenegger. “Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the nomination? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt.”

We haven’t checked Talibunny’s Facebook page, but we imagine her ghostwriter is working up a “girly man” reference this very moment.

Schwarzenegger urges US to lead fight on climate [Financial Times, via Political Wire]

We have no shortage of anal pears to bestow upon Joe Lieberman, and the past couple of days we’ve been more than happy to give their cranks a few extra twists. But mere satiric vitriol isn’t enough for Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake:

Donations to find a cure for cancer should not be used to pay the salary of former insurance and drug lobbyist Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who is pledging to kill health care reform while millions go untreated.

Hamsher, a three-time breast cancer survivor, lays out a complicated case against Susan B. Komen Foundation spokesperson Hadassah Lieberman: that she “has worked for the insurance-pharmaceutical-lobbying complex”; that “she has used her association with her husband the Senator” to score cushy consulting gigs; that “the death of health care reform will no doubt please the clients of Hadassah Lieberman’s lobbying firms”; that “the drugs that are developed by the Komen money are being put out of the financial reach of average middle class women by Hadassah Lieberman’s lobbying firms”; that “the Komen Foundation focuses its resources on developing treatments that increase the profitability of pharmaceutical companies like the ones that employ Mrs. Lieberman rather than prevention”.

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We thought we were being clever when we rigged a Guitar Hero axe through GarageBand so Silent Creative Partner could play it live during his stage show. We now realize we have embarrassingly modest technical ambitions.

[via Sully]

Update: If you wanna play the home game…

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Joe Lieberman, Sunday:

I will tell you that on one part of it the so-called Medicare buy-in, the opposition to it has been growing as the week has gone on. And though I don’t know exactly what’s in it, from what I hear I certainly would have a hard time voting for it because it has some of the same infirmities that the public option did. It will add taxpayer cost. It will add to the deficit. It’s unnecessary.

Joe Lieberman, September 8 (video):

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Megan McArdle at the Atlantic:

No matter how furious Democrats are, they are not going to punish him as long as he can break a filibuster for them.

Yes, Joe Lieberman’s vote on the Canadian imported-beer quota is going to be very important, and Democrats mustn’t risk his displeasure for something as inconsequential as healthcare reform.

Lieberman Stabs Health Care In The Back [Atlantic]