This is brilliant. MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan refused to let Betsy McCaughey hijack the discussion with empty talking points.

I love the line from Ratigan about “corporate communism that is destroying our country.” Whoa.

Elsewhere: The National Republican Congressional Committee thinks Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal should put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in her place.” I’m serious.

Erwin Chemerinsky explains why it is not unconstitutional to require citizens to purchase health insurance.

Michelle Cottle explains that Betsy McCaughey is an unscrupulous bomb-throwing charlatan.

Cappy McGarr explains how earlier trials at health insurance exchanges failed, and why they will continue to fail unless the private health insurance industry is regulated up the wazoo.

Bonus Read — Fundamentalism Eats Itself. Some fundies plan to edit the Bible to make it more conservative.