Rachel Maddow announces a plan being floated in
Washington to revoke seniority from all Democrats who
vote with the Republicans on a filibuster. A petition
is already going viral on Twitter and Facebook to
support the idea.
It's almost as if a liberal blogger is now in
Congress. Alan Grayson chides his own party for
attempting to find some fake bipartisanship support by
courting a single Republican, Olympia Snowe. Grayson
notes that Americans did not elect Olympia Snowe
president, she does not have veto power, and she only
represents 0.5% of the country.
Dr. Paul Hochfeld from Mad as Hell Doctors wasn't
invited to the White House yesterday so he took his
message to MSNBC instead. He believes the current
public option being proposed is "designed to fail".
When it starts in 2013 and fails in 2016, the health
insurance industry will say, "See? The government can't
do health care." But obviously the government is
already doing just fine with the VA and Medicare.