I think health care is a privilege. I wouldn’t call it a right.
— Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), quoted by the Charleston Post & Courier.

The current occupant of the crypt at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles is Richard Poncher, who died in 1986. He is being defenestrated, so to speak, by his widow, Elsie — not because she’s finally fed up by the fact her husband has been sleeping with Monroe for 23 years. She wants to put the money to good use.

If she had a political strategy in mind, I would think she would have an organized sequence of writings and thoughts to pass on. These appear to be more spur of the moment — reacting to issues of the day rather than embodying any broad political strategy.
— GOP fundraiser Fred Malek, quoted by CBS News, [...]

The first publicly announced offer is in, and, while it sounds intriguing, it’s probably an on-camera sex act too far for Levi. And even if not, his advisers will likely suggest he reject it or at least encourage the bidders to sharpen their pencil quite a bit.

Republican leaders are sending signals that their real target in killing health-insurance reform is privatizing Medicare, and thus killing it, too.
Just this week, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) described Medicare on “Meet the Press” as “tyranny.” Tonight, on MSBNC’s “Hardball,” another former House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, R-Texas, agreed with [...]

Just days after a poll found Fox News to be the least trustworthy among the cable channels, a new poll from NBC News — not teaming this time with Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall St. Journal — finds that around three-quarters of self-identified Fox viewers believe the four big lies being promulgated by the GOP about health-insurance [...]

And I’m not talking about quoting from the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible, but a passage from a “silent dialogue” with God’s son yesterday. In a press release distributed on PRWeb yesterday, an outfit called ACIMI — A Course In Miracles Inc. — Jesus is quoted from an alleged “interview” conducted by Clare [...]

Here’s more evidence that Republicans have always hated Medicare. Ronald Reagan recorded this nasty propaganda screed in 1961 when he was an out-of-work B-actor working as a shill for the American Medical Association. The AMA opposed a bill in Congress (and that had the support of Pres. John Kennedy) that would have provided medical care [...]

Fox News is indisputably the most popular cable news channel. And yet in 13 years, Fox has never broken a story. That’s okay, because it is not in the news business. It is in the news-shaping business. Its programming is an admixture of right-wing propaganda and fear-porn for feeble-minded paranoiacs, served up by spokesmodels who [...]