John Cole starts a comment war, featuring none other than Glennzilla himself, with this comment:
Glenn consistently mocks the 11-dimensional chess when Obama’s defenders use it deflect blame when the Obama team has made mistakes… More than likely, I’d bet these stories are coming from Rahm’s buddies who think they are doing him a favor.
Cole was [...]

If the legislation passes, it’s fair to say that Republicans made it happen. By lying and demagoguing “Obamacare” they rallied liberals, centrists and Congressional Democrats to push policies that had only lukewarm support at best and generated outright anger on the left.

Joe Klein takes the opportunity to look at how Obama’s doing (so far).
Let’s see:
1) Hasn’t inherited peace and prosperity and turned them into wars and deficits as far as the eye can see.
2) Hasn’t let terrorists destroy landmark buildings and kill thousands of people in New York and Washington after being warned of a gathering [...]

Jabba the Hate:
“The coup was what many of you wish would happen here, without the military.”
AP: Honduras’ coup-installed government silenced two key dissident broadcasters on Monday just hours after it suspended civil liberties to prevent an uprising by backers of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Dozens of soldiers raided the offices of Radio Globo. Officials [...]

Wow, this does sounds promising:
By far the most controversial detail is who would participate in these exchanges. Both the House and Senate plans would restrict access to small businesses and individuals not eligible for employer-sponsored plans that meet a set of minimum standards for coverage. Plus, while the House plan would at least start with [...]

Lots of otherwise smart liberals are rending their garments in angst over the idea that Barack Obama has lost the message war on heath care reform and is being punked by Republicans because he naively believed he could earn their support through bi-partisan outreach.
Digby: “I actually suspect that many in the Obama White House believed [...]

Time’s Michael Scherer wants you to know what he knows, that Barack Obama described the Gates arrest “…as a possible case of “racial profiling.”
But, in point of fact, he didn’t:
“And No 2, the Cambridge Police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was proof they were already in their own home. And No. 3, what [...]

Things we learned today (if we didn’t already know them):
• It is the media – and a very pack-like media at that – which flat-out decides what “the news” is.
• They will never acknowledge fact #1) and will actually pretend that it is untrue.
• “Conservatives” can still successfully manipulate the media to make their meme [...]

Digby points us to the Village marching orders given by “Village Magus” Charlie Cook:
While the Obama White House has always said compromise would be necessary, the cold realities of the state of the economy, budgets and deficits, and, for members of Congress, re-election are going to force a significant scaling down of the health and [...]

Walter Cronkite on his greatest regret.