On Wednesday evening, "Hardball" audiences were treated to the spectacle of former Vermont Governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean sparring with Senator Mary Landrieu over the current state of the health care bill.
To translate all the crosstalk, Dean's larger complaint was that the Senate has "taken away our choice" by eliminating the public option and the possibility of a Medicare buy-in. Landrieu countered with a rather teabaggy accusation that Dean wants to destroy the insurance industry, and insisted that the president never promised or promoted a public option, so the "choice" that Dean insists was taken away never really existed in the first place. Landrieu's claim does not pass the "Look What You Can Find On Google Within Thirty Seconds" test.CBS News's Political Hotsheet, June 11, 2009, "Obama Pushes Public Health Care Option At Town Hall":
"One of the options... should be a public insurance option," the president said, addressing one of the most contentious issues in the curren watch
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, Deborah Tannen, author and professor at Georgetown University, President of Lake Research, Celinda Lake and CNN political analyst Kellyanne Fitzpatrick discuss the impact and importance of the vote of suburban mothers with school-age children in this year's election. Next, novelist Scott Turow discusses working as a lawyer at the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago and then privately and the breakout success of his first novel and latest book, The Laws of Our Fathers. Then, Pamela Fiori, Editor-in-chief of Town & Country magazine speaks about taking over, and successfully turning the publication around by gearing the magazine towards women of substance. watch
Season 2, Episode 18: Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into the life of an aging pool shark in 1954, faced with the match of his lifetime. Shari Headley guest stars. With Dean Stockwell. watch
