Health care reform & the coming Democratic surge - videoSource: Daily Kos
Watch as Robert Gibbs goes into the belly of the beast to deliver the news that health care reform is going to become the law of the land — and it will become law of the land within the next week:
The subtext of Gibbs' statement couldn't be more clear.

On Tuesday the Drudge report ran with the headline, ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE, and reported the following.
Demographics and Sore Losers: Why Specter did it, and had to do it Source: Talking Points Memo
Probably the most important point is here is the demographic changes going on in Specter's home state. Pennsylvania is a closed-primary state, and the ranks of registered Republicans, the folks eligible to vote in the GOP primary, shrunk last year.
The Slime Mold PartySource: Paul Rosenberg
I don't mean to slime the slime molds by comparing them to the GOP. It's nothing personal, you see. It's just a mathematical thing. There are actually two different types of slime molds, plasmodial slime molds and celluclar ones. It's the cellular ones I'm referring to here.

From the Things I Can't Say files:
Look. McCain was a hero for who(m)?
Anyone who goes through any kind of ordeal in say a prisoner of war camp or incarceration in a penitentiary is a survivor, yes.
But a hero?