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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy. Therefore, if government officials break the law “righteously” we should look forward and not backward, we should trust that the accused did what they did because they thought it was best, we should not investigate, or really, not even bring it up too often as that would be impolite. Also, if committing a crime becomes a central plank in the platform for one of America’s political partys, then that’s another reason to not do anything about the crime, because doing so would look too political.

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1939

Susan Collins wants a Trigger. She acknowledges that the Public Option is the best mechanism to fix our broken system of private insurance companies, but then with a straight face she says that the threat alone of fixing the broken system should convince the broken system to become unbroken. The threat should be a few years long.

When the car you're speeding in is about to crash into a wall, it's not the potentiality of a seatbelt that will save you. It's a seatbelt. It's brakes. It's evasive steering. It's a bumper. It's an airbag.

Think about that! The solution should only become available if the problem keeps getting worse for two more years.

In other words: before we fix it, we must first let it get worse. That makes sense. That's what I voted for.

NOTE: In some of the photos below, crowds waiting are waiting for medical care provided by Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, who have been called upon in America's largest cities to help some of the tens of millions of Americans whose government would let them die.

The name, "The Rachel Maddow Show" is owned by Air America Radio. What should she call her show?

Also, can you pitch a segment or two?

To the first point, here are some quick suggestions:

• Openly Liberal
• Talking Liberally
• Body Politic with Dr. Rachel Maddow
• Rachel Maddow's Next Deal
• TeeVee Machine with Rachel Maddow
• Rachel Maddow's TV Show
• Reality with Rachel Maddow
• Openly Rachel Maddow
• The Fight with Rachel Maddow

As for show segments:

1. "Bobbleheads"

a mix of the Abbreviated Pundit Round Up posts + "Talk Soup" snark + clips from other talking head TV shows

Run through a selection of clips from other political TV shows, pause them and point out the:
intellectual dishonesty
unintended irony
glaring omission
patent absurdity
pie-in-the-sky idiocy

2. "Your Liberal Media"

Point out glaring instances of IOKIYAR-ism on the teevee from DC's Gang of 500, ie. The Villagers.

Clearly I'd like Maddow to not hide the fact that she's a liberal on tv and I think the best way to do that is to show how there are so many hundreds more conservatives surrounding her.

Suggestions?

Bush: Iran Must Explain Hidden Nuclear Weapons Program [Source: VOA]
(You read that headline right.)
Today is tuesday, so it's time for Bush's weekly list of impossible demands. They also included:

Namibia Must Explain Invisible Village-Terrorizing Dragons
Evil Must Disassemble Nonexistent Soul-Sucking Machine
Smurfs Must Explain Toxic Waste Producing Mythical Village
North Korea Must Stop Imaginary Tidal Wave
Fred Astaire's Clubbed Foot Must Postpone Ragnorok
Democrats Must Explain Strategy