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Although we would like to believe that health care opponents are just misinformed, and that they just mistakenly believe the lies that are tossed their way by their authoritarian leaders, there is something troubling about the continued racist tone to the protests.
The signs that the teabaggers carry constantly force us to ask the question, are they protesting health care, or the fact that a black man is... 
After Obama schooled the Republics in a question-and-answer session on a number of issues, Obama invited the Republics to the transparent conversation that they had requested, and added that there would be cameras there too, recording every word.
To show how shallow they are, the Republics said that they had made a mistake in allowing cameras into the Q-&-A with Obama. Why was it a mistake to have... 
“The Daily Show” fans might remember Jon Stewart saying on multiple occasions during the Health Care Reform debate, “I don’t know whether Obama is playing 12–dimensional chess, or whether he is getting his ass kicked on this.” It was a good question, because blind Obama loyalists will insist that, despite the debacle of this past 12 months, Obama has... 
The difference between progressives and Republican voters, is that the Republicans must have a religious belief in the infallibility of whomever they are adoring at the time, whether it be George W. Bush or Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber.
Criticizing George W. Bush during his Presidency was considered un-American by Republicans who believed their leader could do no wrong. A dissenting voice among... 
I have been silent on health care for last six weeks. No one wants a blow-by-blow description of a car wreck taking place in slow motion.
I predicted in September that the White House did not originally want a public option and that all the talk about it was political theater, designed to distract and offer hope to loyal progressives, even though the Obama administration knew they were going to let... 