Over three-quarters of voters in the SurveryUSA poll said they consider a government option to be either extremely or quite important.

Even FactCheck.org has had it with the level of inanity coming from opponents to health care reform. The normally dispassionate site is addressing a ridiculous email (which so far, I haven’t gotten, praise Allah!) written by a rightwing blogger who posts the famous “Joker” picture of Obama on his home page.

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support a federal health insurance plan, but only 37 percent define “public option” correctly.

Sen. Grassley stood silently by while a town-hall tea-bagger said this: “The president of the United States, that’s who you should be concerned about. Because he’s acting like a little Hitler. I’d take a gun to Washington if enough of you would go with me.”

David Frum: “The thing that is so wacky about this debate, of course, is that it is already true that everybody, or virtually everybody over 65, is enrolled in a public plan. The government could kill them all now if it wanted to.”

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 [...]

As the Quote du Jour and Jon’s post about Palin exploiting her children to distort Democratic health care reform point out, there is a lot of misinformation making the rounds on the topic. Enter the White House, which has launched a new site to set things straight. Health Insurance Reform Reality Check dispels such rumors [...]

From the moment she signed on as the Republican vice-presidential nominee last year, Sarah Palin has made a habit of using her children as political props but then denouncing the media for reporting on it when she thrusts her kids into the spotlight.
Palin’s exploitation of her children took a nasty turn on Friday when [...]

The Democratic National Party has released a web ad that unmasks this summer’s Republicans astroturf campaign of deploying tea-baggers to disrupt health-care town halls and other events. The ad exposes the fact that the people shown in cell-phone videos of the disruptions are not the angry constituents confronting their elected representatives they pretend to be, [...]

In his Special Comment on MSNBC’s “Countdown” last night, Keith Olbermann called out prominent members of Congress who are working to kill health-care reform, accusing them of prostituting themselves to the health industry lobbies.
“We know what you are, sir, we’re arguing about the price.” – Olbermann addressing Sen. Thune (R-N.D.), who has been paid [...]