Daily Kos: Anthony Weiner kills on Morning Joe!!!!  Medicare for all!!! I dont know how many people saw this, but Anthony weiner just made the best, most intelligent case for healthcare reform I have heard in years. He went on Morning Joe, and in a very clear, calm way, told Joe that he wanted to expand Medicare for all Americans. He asked the basic question that has failed to be asked by any other leading Democrat with the exception of Independent Bernie Sanders.

Hat Tip: Larwyn Obama Joker artist found Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan The NYT’s ‘Nuanced’ View of Rahm Emanuel: A ‘Tammany Hall Pol’ Who Loves Puppies Health Care Trading Cards: Collect ‘em all! Huge Payoff for Unions in Support of Obamacare Labor thugs pack Obama health care meetings “How American Health Care Killed My Father’ How the climate bill would expand government Obama’s Energy Plan: Mandated Scarcity in the Richest Country in the World Effing Ingenious Does Reading The Bill Really Matter?

Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line . That’s Rob Thomas above- Mix 107.3’s Tommy McFly hosted a concert and Q&A; with the musician yesterday at Gibson Guitar Shop in Chinatown. Happy 21st Birthday to future DC journo Elyssa Dornic ! What know and what we’re reading this Tuesday morning…

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 8/10-13. All adults. MoE 2% (No trend lines) 1. Do you think the health care reform plan being considered by President Obama and Congress creates “death panels” which have the authority to subjectively determine whether or not a gravely ill or injured person should receive health care based on their “level of productivity in society”? Yes      11 No       72 Not sure 17 Despite this being an absurd suggestion, 11% of respondents think Obama is suggesting “death panels”, and 17% can’t be sure.

Looks like push may be coming to shove on the so-called “Public Option.” Progressive Democrats are saying, “No Public Option, No Bill!” “Americans deserve reform that is real – not smoke and mirrors. We cannot rely solely on the insurance companies’ good faith efforts to provide for our constituents,” wrote Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva D-Arizona, Lynn Woolsey D-California and Barbara Lee D-California.

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE I have nothing to say about Netroots Nation ‘09. Except… >> We humbly apologize, Pittsburgh, for using one of your most famous landmarks at 3am Friday night to create the world’s largest chocolate fountain. But we promise to give you co-credit when we submit our documentation to the Guinness Book. >> The first thing you notice when you meet Meteor Blades—who attended his first NN convention this year—is that he’s eleven feet, seven and a half inches tall (we measured).