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December 13, 2009 C-SPAN

From The Hill--McCain calls out earmarks in omnibus:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took his crusade against pork projects to Twitter today, tweeting this about an earmark for urban renewal in Scranton, PA: $292,200 4 elimination of slum & blight in Scranton, PA – I think the cast from the Office introduced...@rainnwilson was this you? Scranton, of course, is home to NBC's "The Office." Rainn Wilson plays the character of Dwight.

Heather: Sen. John McCain was also not happy about money being spent for irritable bowel syndrome, surgical operations in space and a rural bus program in Hawaii. McCain spent part of this little tirade carping about Washington caring about Wall Street instead of Main Street. That's pretty rich coming from the guy who had Foreclosure Phil Gramm as his economic advisor until he stepped down after calling Americans a nation of whiners.

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Wow, Bill O'Reilly goes where the Baucus Dogs fail to go. In a place far, far away to explore strange, new worlds, and to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no ConservaDem has gone before."

The Public Option!

Bill O'Reilly backed the public option on the Factor even though he pronounced it dead. His friend Glenn Beck and the rest of FOX News must still have their mouths wide open and drool running down their chins.
Is he truly serious or was it a calculated move to shake up the debate on FOX?

O'REILLY: The public option now is done. We discussed this, it's not going to happen. But you say that this little marketplace that they're going to set up, whereby the federal government would subsidize insurance for some Americans, that is, in your opinion, a public option?

OWCHARENKO: Well, it has massive new federal regulation. So you don't necessarily need a public option if the federal government is going to control and regulate the type of health insurance that Americans can buy.

O'REILLY: But you know, I want that, Ms. Owcharenko. I want that. I want, not for personally for me, but for working Americans, to have a option, that if they don't like their health insurance, if it's too expensive, they can't afford it, if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks.

O'Reilly is a socialist now. And backing the public option is going to freak FOX News out. Last week he was on with David Axlerod and was for having the Feds override states' rights.

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Via The Chicago Sun-Times, Is Obama the modern-day Mr. Spock? Open thread below.