First, the President is speaking in Montana today at another town hall meeting. I understand tickets are being handed out first come, first serve, instead of by the White House, so the audience could be a bit livelier than in the recent New Hampshire event. The meeting is supposed to start at 12:50 local time, which I think would be 2:50 EST. I don’t know if I will live blog — we’ll see — but I will look in on it and comment if anything significant happens.
And I trust the Secret Service will send everyone through five metal detectors and two dozen bag searches before they can be seated.
The New York Times is running a story on the origins of the “death panel” rumors. There isn’t anything in it that you don’t already know, I believe, but the fact that the New York Times is publishing this is itself noteworthy. And the fact that it’s noteworthy when a major newspapers publishes stuff we all already know is itself noteworthy, huh?
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani’s descent into political irrelevancy continues as he endorses the death panel rumors.
Scott Lehigh tells us that the anti-health reform mobs are made up of whackjobs. Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed.
Paul Krugman comments on how we are so not post partisan, are we?
I really hope Obama has a good security detail, because he is going right into the heart of conservative lunatic country in Montana. Let’s not forget the right-wing nutjob group, the Montana Freemen was pretty active not so long ago.
As jon Stewart sarcastically noted, these so-called “birthers” aren’t so much looking for Obama’s birth certificate as they are looking for his death certificate.
The New York Times is running a story on the origins of the “death panel†rumors.
That is noteworthy! Kudos to them, if it’s a good story. I was just thinking about how the papers were all consumed with remorse over their stenography and faceplanting re: the Iraq war and wanting to tell them “remember how badly you dropped the ball, helping cause the deaths of zillions of people? You’re doing it again right now.”
Maybe the crazy has gotten too big even for the papers.
Mr. Krugman mentioned the despicable thing Grassley says about Kennedy. I wish someone would bring up the fact that a while back Kennedy wrote a very poignant article that I read at Truthout. He talked about his fight for health care for every American that has taken place through his entire political career. He talked about the fact that he has the best care an American could get because HE HAS THE MONEY TO BUY THAT CARE. But, he thinks all Americans should get that same care even if they aren’t Kennedys. Grassley just plain doesn’t care about all Americans only a select few (and those few do not include the “Joe the plumbers”. What a slug Grassley is. (I apologize if I insulted any slugs.)