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A group of male GOP House members, just tried to repeatedly block a group of female Democratic House members from speaking on the House floor. The Democrats wanted to speak about how Health Care Reform was important for women. The men would have nothing of it. Typical. Oh, did I just hear the "socialist" word?

So much great music from the Juno soundtrack and I love Kimya Dawson. It's the perfect tune for getting started on a lazy Saturday morning. The sun is out though so it's time to get on the bike before the rain comes back. Again.

Oh my God. This is priceless video. Just happened a short while ago.

Okay, I don't often link to Dana Milbank, but today, he has some of the color from the teabagger rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. I found this particularly interesting: More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled government-run health care -- rushed over, attaching electrodes to his chest and giving him oxygen and an IV drip. This turned into an unwanted visual for the speakers, as a D.C. ambulance and firetruck, lights flashing, pulled in just behind the lawmakers. A path was made through the media section, and the patient, attended to by about 10 government medical personnel, was being wheeled away on a stretcher just as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stepped to the microphone. "Join us in defeating Pelosi care!" he exhorted. A few members stole a glance at the stretcher. Boehner may have been distracted as well. He told the crowd he would read from the Constitution, then read the "we hold these truths" bit from the Declaration of Independence.And, this was just disgusting:But the best of Bachmann's recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children. Then, there's Rep. Todd Akin's performance. Akin wanted to drive liberals crazy by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. But, as Paul Constant noted at the SLOG, "it does drive us crazy when somebody gets all smug about owning the Pledge of Allegiance and then he can't f*#$@ing say it without screwing it up":

Is there a contest in the GOP to see who is the craziest? Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), the Congresswoman who slandered Matthew Shepard, thinks health insurance reform is a bigger danger than terrorism -- and we know how much Republicans fear terrorism. I know it doesn't make sense. Foxx is Bachmann-like in her extremism. From Faiz Shakir at Think Progress:

NOTE FROM JOHN: The sources are no longer anonymous. With several of the top spokespeople from the White House on the talk shows today, it's important to hear what they have to say about the President's role in the health insurance reform debate. How much is he actually doing on Capitol Hill to get the strongest possible bill with the best public option? Because, indications from the Hill are that he's not doing so much. Rep. Anthony Weiner said as much on Rachel Maddow's show on Thursday. Taylor Marsh transcribed the key points and the video is below. Weiner's message: You know, the idea that the President could have maybe come in and said, you know what, here’s ten guys that I can sway. If the President of the United States calls it’s tough to say no. We’ve kind of been left to do this on our own and you really need the full-throated support of a president at a moment like this when we’re having a big national debate. … But really, I don’t think we can close this out unless the President really helps us.” –

Okay, first this video isn't a joke. It isn't a parody. You'll just think it is. It's a right-wing rapper. Yes, right-wing rapper. He's bad. And, I mean bad in the traditional sense, not the hip, cool sense. And, of course, he throws in the requisite gay-bashing. It's just bad: These are the people who rule the GOP now.

From Media Matters:Linking to an Associated Press article about Medicare coverage for voluntary end-of-life counseling in the House health care bill, conservative media outlets such as Fox News and BigGovernment.com have featured misleading headlines to revive the widely debunked "death panel" smear. Fox News' Peter Johnson Jr. also stated during an interview with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), "So with regard to the death panel, nothing much has changed."With regards to FOX News, nothing much has changed.