Rep. Alan Grayson (D – Outraged) is not backing down. Not only does Congress’ most passionate promoter of health care reform refuse to apologize for calling out obstructionist Republicans who are standing in the way of meaningful reform, but yesterday the Florida Democrat held a “Roll Call of the Dead” to highlight the number of people who are expected to die in each GOP member’s disctrict next year as a direct consequence of a lack of affordable health insurance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4rOkq9fUo

This is the sort of man the Democratic party, and yea… even America herself, needs right now.

(Via: Democratic Underground)

(Update: Huffington Post has the whole, three part speech)

Just Imagine - A Whole Day of Howling Your 'Fuck-You's at Caligutard, just like Jesus wants!

When Caligutard was gagging on pretzels and Jeff Gannon in the White House, his handlers were careful to make sure the fragile, quaking dry drunk never encountered the raging legions of protesters that assembled everywhere he appeared to curse his every breath and condemn his depthless perfidy.

Now, as a private citizen, the murderous, traitorous Caligutard enjoys greatly reduced reality avoidance resources, exposing him to the full howling fury of a nation that hates him as no president has ever been reviled.

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When you think of communist leader Mao Tze Tung, who else is the first person to pop into your head? That’s right: Mother Teresa. And the converse, of course, is also true. When I think of Mother Teresa, images of Chairman Mao just naturally pop into my head.  The association between these two leaders is simply inescapable. So it’s more than understandable that when an Obama Administration official compared the two figures in a speech, the right-wing blogosphere and Fox News’ Glenn Beck went ballistic, correctly inferring that there was no irony intended by White House communications director Anita Dunn when she cited Mao and Mother Theresa to drive home a point about doing “things that have never been done before.” Read more »

Bono’s totally OK with Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize:

“We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”

They’re not my words, they’re your president’s. If they’re not familiar, it’s because they didn’t make many headlines. But for me, these 36 words are why I believe Mr. Obama could well be a force for peace and prosperity — if the words signal action.

So chill, everybody. It’s cool.

(p.s. don’t delay your planned post on account of this, NOJO.)

When President Palin lands the Winter Olympics for Wasilla, the Weekly Standard’s “world headquarters” will erupt in cheers.

Sarah Palin is a writer, because that’s what unemployed governors do. Sarah Palin’s memoir is titled Going Rogue, because Going Maverick was apparently a tad too derivative. And, good news, readers! The book will be coming out early because Sarah Palin wrote it fast. This is probably either because she is such a great writer, or because it’s going to be a color by numbers book, to ensure that it is enjoyed by the majority of her supporters. Anyway, literature!

Sarah Palin: “Going Rogue” Hits Bookstores Early [The Christian Science Monitor]

Dead Guy Video

The era of complete and total disregulation of the financial violence industry has created a new class of predator, the debt collector, often a third party speculator who buys blocks of debt at a discount and sends bounty hunters out to collect on it, using tactics that would make Ghenghis Khan vomit blood.

The collectors are soulless , cackling jackals who will say and do anything short of pistol whipping a debtor to get them to disgorge payment.  Got more than one vowel in your name and an accent?  They’ll ask if you papers are in order and if you’ve ever been kicked to death by ICE agents.  Got a wife?   They’ll ask if you’ve ever imagined what she would look like without arms.  Got a debilitating disease?  They’ll taunt, threaten and jeer at you until it fucking kills you.

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