President-elect Barack Obama’s plans to overhaul the U.S. health care system would cost the federal government $75 billion but would provide health insurance for 95 percent of Americans, consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers said on Wednesday.

Call it a “health-care bailout,” and we have a winner.

Obama health plan to cost $75 billion: analysis [Reuters]

We’ve seen that movie too:

“Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

So ruled the Virginia trial judge following the January 1959 conviction of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving for marrying against the wishes of the state. The crime of illegal matrimony was a felony, one-to-five; the judge suspended the sentence on the condition that Jeter and Loving profane God’s will elsewhere for twenty-five years.

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“Welcome to our newest grassroots Web site, Republican For A Reason.”

Presented by the Republican National Committee, where the only grassroots you’ll find are putting greens.

And featuring Ronnie, George I, and — not until 2:50 in — Shrub.

Because the best way to inspire a new generation of voters is to run footage of presidents from before they were born, before they paid attention, or whom they resent.

Republican For a Reason [RNC]

Just when we feared we’d have to start working for our material, Paul Broun, House Republican from Georgia, serves it up on a platter:

“You have to remember that Adolf Hitler was elected in a democratic Germany. I’m not comparing him to Adolf Hitler. What I’m saying is there is the potential of going down that road.”

Yes, yes, oh god, yes! It’s only been a week, and we didn’t realize how empty our life felt. Where are the terrorists of yesterday? Whither the socialists? Where have you gone, Michele Bachmann?

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Sarah Palin. Fox News. Go.

“I’m like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.”

Palin puts faith in God for 2012 [BBC]

While Shrub waits for historians to vindicate him a century from now, let us commemorate his singular achievement:

“No other president’s disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has managed to do that three times so far this year,” says CNN polling director Keating Holland. “That means that Bush is now more unpopular than Richard Nixon was when he resigned from office during Watergate with a 66 percent disapproval rating.”

Bush leaving office more unpopular than Nixon [CNN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ45Q2zXxiQ

Fun story: We scoured Google for the actual video, but Fox lawyers were years ahead of us. Fine, we thought, we’ll just set up our own YouTube account, rip the clip from the DVD, and name it something vague so it doesn’t turn up in searches. But the moment it finished uploading, Fox flagged it, the FBI showed up at our door, and now we’re posting from Gitmo.

Awkward meeting is ahead for Obama [IHT]

The First Bush-Obama Meeting [Political Wire]