ABC News’ Brian Ross reports disturbing news about how some terrorists already locked up in federal prisons are “beating” the system and passing their “message” along to others:
… unless the final bill has some form of the public option contained within it (via Memeorandum):
Michael Goldfarb reports on a disturbing threat a Senate aide alleges has been made towards Democrat Senator Ben Nelson by the WH (via Ed Morrissey):
Sorry for the light blogging today. Got a lot going on and so little time to take care of it all. Hey, it’s Christmas – I’m sure we’re all suffering from the “lack of enough time in the day” dilemma! 🙂
It started with Jane Hamsher and other nitwits at the prominent liberal blog “Firedoglake.” Now even bigger guns have gotten involved: the HuffPo and the Daily Kos blog (a blog that is now calling Mrs. Lieberman “anti-American“). I should note that Hamsher is behind most of the efforts seen at other liberal websites, but the places she’s posting her message at (like HuffPo) and the places posting the message on her behalf are giving her the platform to spread her venom, so they are just as complicit for allowing it as she is for posting it.
… when Klein himself, a longtime proponent of socialized healthcare, is in favor of the public option, which in effect will give the existing Medicare panel more power to decide who gets what healthcare – as a form of “cost control”? Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies wrote back in August:
