Rask had some insane saves last night.

People don't trust the government because they don't think political elites listen to them. Meanwhile, a celebrated new publication discovers fantastic success by showing just how much political elites listen to each other.

It's hard not to come away from the profile of Allen thinking that there's a bipartisan quasi-conspiracy to run the country without regard for popular input, and that Allen and Politico both embody and facilitate it.

We have to give our base a reason to get out there, a reason to feel proud of who we are and what we stood for as a party. . .And I don't think up to now we've done a very effective job in doing it.

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 4 million Americans - the vast majority of them middle class - will have to pay the new penalty for not getting health insurance when President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law kicks in, according to congressional estimates released Thursday.

The penalties will average a little more than $1,000 apiece in 2016, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report.

Most of the people paying the fine will be middle class. Obama pledged in 2008 not to raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 a year and couples making less than $250,000."

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I like the Dems use of video of McConnell, then refuting it, especially Durbin on my pet peeve, the bailout BS McConnell was peddling.

But this from the NYT?

The bellicose stance by Democrats, even as Republicans insist they are hopeful of a bipartisan deal, carries some political risk. Voters, often frustrated by the acrimony in Washington, could decide that Democrats, who control Congress and the White House, are being arrogant by refusing to make concessions.

The next Obamacare target: Your bacon sandwich

Barring the success of lawsuits or huge gains by Republicans this fall, the president's health program will be imposed in pieces over the next four years. By the end, the government will have a fiduciary interest in the waistlines and cholesterol counts of every American.

on the other hand I was just reading this a couple of days ago.

Freak Show Fat

Pictured is Chauncy Morlan, who once made a living as a side show fat man. People paid money to look at him, because he was so unusually obese. A hundred years later, you can walk into any buffet restaurant and see a dozen people bigger than Morlan.