In season three of Real Housewives of New York City the Housewives have to deal with the burning questions of how to address LuAnn, a countess who was unceremoniously dumped by her European count. And, how to deal with LuAnn's demands she continue to be treated like loyalty.

This heavy-handed message comes today from Change to Win, the coalition lead by Andy Stern's SEIU: 'It is time for Congress members to decide on which side of history will they stand. They must choose between working families struggling to get by and an insurance industry that puts profits before the people they are supposed to serve.'

Kevin Glass explains : [...] Analysis from the Congressional Budget Office has pegged the new plan at $940 billion and includes eye-popping deficit reduction numbers. There's chatter from Capitol Hill is that some Democrats are going to use the second-decade deficit reduction numbers as a justification to vote for the bill. These numbers claim deficit reduction up to $1.2 trillion. What's not noted is the heaps and heaps of qualifications that the CBO has repeatedly put on their second-decade numbers. This includes phrases such as a detailed year-by-year projection... would not be meaningful because the uncertainties involved are simply too great and the legislation would maintain and put into effect a number of procedures that...

1. Obama goes out of his way to distinguish between the Israeli people and the Israeli government -- 'a special bond with the Israeli people ' and all that. Translation: 'Drop dead, Bibi.' That is something we normally do with hostile regimes; i.e., 'We have no ill will toward the long-suffering people  of North Korea ....' Also, Obama pointed out that his administration condemned, 'in the same terms,' the Palestinian rioters' attack on a synagogue after having condemned the approval of an apartment building in Jerusalem. A violent assault and a zoning ruling, the same terms . One of these things is not like the other, no? 2. Would like to smack Bret Baier for asking the president of the United States his opinion on a golfer's sex life. I'm no fan of the presidency's neo-imperial trappings, but that's...

I'm not going to pretend to be a budget wonk but aside from the fact that the CBO projections are based on the 'facts' provided to them by Democratic leadership, the Director of the CBO says this isn't a real...