Feingold Pushing Health Care Coverage

Update: Jonathan Cohn - Early Word on the House Bill: So Far, So Good

If national health care's fate were to be decided by Wisconsin's Congressional delegation alone, it would be sailing to President Obama's desk, the GOP and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) be damned.

Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison) and Rep. Steve Kagan (D-Green Bay) are long-time champions of guaranteed health care.

And in the Senate, Senator Russ Feingold is likewise a true-blue advocate. Check out Russ' blog if you have not read it which seems to be e-mailing daily health care postings.

Geraldine Ferraro, Clinton Surrogate, Blows Dog Whistle to Racists

UpdateIII: A Brown Woman's Open Letter to Geraldine Ferraro & the Clinton Campaign

UpdateII: Ferraro Resigns From Campaign She Claimed Couldn't Fire Her

Update: BREAKING NEWS: NBC News confirms Geraldine Ferraro leaving Clinton campaign

Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton continue their deplorable appeals to racism, but now the denunciations are pouring in. The latest:

Ferraro's original statement to Daily Breeze, which suggested that Obama has gotten preferential political treatment because of his race, was a dog-whistle to white voters who resent affirmative action. (Her subsequent statement to the New York Times, in which she defiantly defended herself by proclaiming "I will not be discriminated against because I’m white," wasn't a dog whistle. It was a huge, screeching megaphone.) ...

- Jonathan Cohn in TNR