The health care bill dies.

Well, reports of its death may be premature. But Matt does a bang-up job laying out just why we haven't been able to get real reform even with [FK]D's owning the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives.

Matt Taibbi asks: Is Goldman screwing taxpayers on TARP negotiations?

Can you guess what the answer is? I knew you could!

Matt Taibbi has an article up on alternet called Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics.

Taibbi has published plenty of things I disagree with and this is not a blanket endorsement of him, but he has written a fine article and fits in with what we've been talking about here along the lines of "can we afford the rich" and preparing for a hard winter and harder times to come.

In the beginning of the article he quotes a letter to Bernie Sanders from a single mother who had to burn furniture last winter to keep warm, and then he goes straight into the stupid BS narratives that the consultants and the Village are trying on for the race: