Hank Greenberg will testify before the Oversight Committee today. I suspect it'll be a dog and pony show designed to exonerate Greenberg, not a useful hearing to learn what happened at AIG.

Shoot, they snuck in and restarted the hearing while I was vomiting after the FISA vote.

The surveillance state we occupy today is the festering, mature result of the acts of cloying politicians and barons of power to serve their own political and financial goals by declaring themselves

For so long now we have been eagerly awaiting the results on the DOJ IG/OPR investigation into the curious and unprecedented firing of nine US Attorneys by the Bush Administration. Heh, but will it ever really arrive?

As BayStateLibrul pointed out in threads, SCOTUS denied the Wilsons cert today in their lawsuit against Dick Cheney and his band of leakers. As bmaz points out, the news is unsurprising. The die was cast by John Bates’ exploitation (and to some...

I did a post when Max Baucus first released the Finance Committee bill, showing that for a middle class family of four, a significant medical event would leave the family with just $7,215 to pay transportation, education/child care, utilities, debt,...

Sorry for even suggesting that there could be a “holiday season” torture document dump. But if you need a break from health care fights, here are some torture docs. Consider this an open thread.  

In a post citing liberally from a Matt Yglesias post naming me,  Ezra takes on the argument that the health care bill, as currently conceived by President Lieberman, would be a bailout of the insurance industry. There’s an argument on the left that...

Here’s what my Senator, Carl Levin, said last night when he voted against the Dorgan reimportation amendment. (h/t powwow) Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, it has become apparent that passage of this Dorgan amendment relative to importation of prescription...

I believe that if the Senate health care bill passes as Joe Lieberman has demanded it–with no Medicare buy-in or public option–it will be a significant step further on our road to neo-feudalism. As such, I find it far too dangerous to our democracy to...