From the Liveshots blog at Fox News:

Hundreds of pro-health care reform advocates gathered at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC Tuesday morning to protest deadlock on the current state of the bill on Capitol Hill.

Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, told the crowd, “We deserve a vote! Are you for the insurance companies or are you for the American people?”

That’s right, folks: If you work for an insurance company, you are neither an American nor a person.

The protesters are now marching to the Dupont Ritz-Carlton where they plan to “surround and blockade the hotel, go inside and arrest lobbyists for their crimes against healthcare.”

That sounds like a great idea. That’s how you’re going to win the rest of us over. Please do that.

Update:

So far there have been no arrests or physical confrontations with the police, but the crowd has been chanting and playing drums.

Louder. Louder! How can we tell you’re serious if we can’t hear the drums?

There’s been a lot of talk about the ObamaCare “nuclear option.” But reconciliation is just a dirty bomb. The real nuke is…

There have been plenty of boobs in the New York governor’s office lately. Why not a couple more? Some money shots quotes from former “Manhattan Madam,” Spitzer bête noire, and NY gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis:

People ask me how I could be governor. I say, how could I do any worse than the clowns we have in Albany now? I mean — Spitzer, Paterson, Silver, Monseratte, Hevesi?

Please! Incompetent clowns! Buffoons. Hacks. Bottom-feeders. These guys couldn’t hold a real job where you have to make a profit.

And:

By the way, do you think Tucker Carlson would consider running for lieutenant governor?

You might think that the lawyer of a guy who shot and killed 14 people might be a bit circumspect about complying with a gag order. You would be wrong. And also, indisputably, racist.

Remember former PA Rep. Melissa Hart’s abandoned car? She’s got it covered. With dust.

Florida Governor (and fading senatorial candidate) Charlie Crist says he gets his hair cut by a guy named Carl the Barber. With a name like that, it would seem that Carl’s career path was set from birth. Oh, and Crist also might be implying that Marco Rubio is… what, a sissy? That’s a fight Crist wants to have, apparently.

Jon Ward classes up the joint at MSNBC.

Whoops:

Chris Matthews might have chastised Rather for such an embarrassing gaffe, but he forgot why it might be a problem.

I don’t have much to add to this, but it’s a fine opportunity to recycle some Rather-bashing fun from my old blog:

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I could watch the guy in white get knocked down all day. He just looks like he needs it.

(thx DC)

I’d never even heard of Eric Massa a week ago. Now apparently he’s the most important guy on Earth. Last week he announced he was resigning from the House of Representatives because of a recurrence of cancer. Then it turned out he was under investigation for possible sexual misconduct with a male aide.

And then it got weird:

New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care.

Massa was one of 39 Democrats who voted against an earlier House version of the health care bill in November. He says Democratic leaders will “stop at nothing” to advance the health care overhaul…

Facing a harassment complaint from a staffer, Massa said last week he’s stepping down from his seat Monday. He earlier announced he wouldn’t seek re-election because of health problems.

He said he learned he was the subject of an ethics complaint by a male staffer who felt “uncomfortable” during an exchange with Massa. The exchange reportedly had sexual overtones.

And here’s Massa’s account of the incident, as told to a New York radio station:

“On New Year’s Eve, I went to a staff party. It was actually a wedding for a staff member of mine; there were over 250 people there. I was with my wife. And in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu…

“I said goodnight to the bridesmaid. I sat down at the table where my whole staff was, all of them by the way bachelors.

“One of them looked at me and as they would do after, I don’t know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid and his points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that… And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, ‘Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you.’ And then [I] tossled the guy’s hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn’t right for me to be there. Now was that inappropriate of me? Absolutely. Am I guilty? Yes.”

Wow. What a bombshell. I don’t want to cast any aspersions on ObamaCare, but you know your legislation stinks when its passage hinges on whether or not a congressman made a drunken joke at a wedding reception.

And now:

Outgoing Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) had some choice words for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during a recent radio interview in which he called the top Obama adviser “the son of the devil’s spawn.”

“He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive,” Massa said of Emanuel’s desire to lock up vital votes on health care reform. “You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what’s going on in Washington, D.C.”

So would that make Rahm the devil’s grandson? That would mean he’s merely one-quarter evil. That doesn’t sound right to me.

P.S. Okay: No. Just no.

The Daily Mail reports:

A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital.

Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help.

They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was under control.

The next day his mother Rita Cronin found him delirious and he died within hours…

That’s awful. Which third-world hellhole was this?

Sources say they are investigating the possibility of a corporate manslaughter charge against St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London.

Oh.

Well hey, it’s not like he had to wear his sister’s dentures.

Good news, though! According to the BBC, the hospital has apologized:

A spokeswoman for St George’s Hospital said: “We are extremely sorry about the death of Kane Gorny and understand the distress that this has caused to his family.

“A full investigation was carried out by the trust in 2009 and new procedures introduced to ensure that such a case cannot happen in future.

“We have written to the family to explain the actions that have been taken and to answer their concerns about Mr Gorny’s care.

“The family has also been invited to meet with trust staff to discuss the case in detail.”

So everything’s fixed! Whew. Enjoy your ObamaCare, America. This sort of thing can never ever ever happen here.

WUSA (Channel 9):

Two pedestrians were killed and a third was critically injured in three separate vehicle crashes in the DC region early Saturday morning.

Two of the drivers did not stop and are still being sought, police said. The three crashes occurred in a 30-minute span.

What is wrong with people?