1. Given that Barack Obama took in WAY more money from health insurance and pharmaceutical corporations than Max Baucus, could everyone please stop calling Baucus the top recipient of such bribes?
2. When is it going to be safe to set foot outside the house without being told that FDR told A Phillip Randolph to go out there and make him do it? Of course we have to make officials do what we want them to do. They’ll never just do it on their own. But this anecdote is being used to shift blame for Obama’s actions onto those of us who oppose them, which is NOT the way to make him do it.