• Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's left-leaning television commentators, occasionally maul the facts to fit their views --
they tend to spin like industrial sized dryers -- more than somewhat. Pity.
• HEALTH CARE DEAL --In the midst of the health care debate, Republican have been clamoring for insurance companies to be able to operate over state lines. The progressive Democrats don't like the coop option. Is there a deal in the making where both the coops and the insurers can operate over state lines? That very well may satisfy Republicans and would allow the coops to compete with a larger pool so they can negotiate with pharma, docs, and hospitals. Is that enough to seal the deal with the progressives and the blue dogs? Stay tuned on this one.
• From the Paranoia Pile Sy Hersh didn't write about this: A secret deal between the office of former vice president Cheney and Al Queada -- we wouldn't go after Bin Laden or Al Zawahiri if Queda wouldn't attack the homeland.
• Was that The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel having lunch with
Phyllis Schlafy of the Eagle Forum at a tony Washington lunch spot
recently? Ah, probably not . . . but then, again?
