Early this morning the U.S. Senate passed a health care reform bill after 25 days of raucous debate. The bill, which would require most Americans to purchase health insurance, will now be merged with the House bill and sent to Obama to sign. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accidentally voted against the bill before he voted for it. Read into that whatever you will. |NY Times|
Oh hey did you hear the Senate passed a health care reform bill last night at 1am? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a shit bill that everybody hates, but hey they did SOMETHING, so now they can all go home for Christmas and brag about that. Oh, and then there’s this: Read more »
Cock-faced, weasel-y Republican Muppet Joe Lieberman last week claimed that he was joining forces with the GOP to block any health care reform bill including a public option from being voted on in the Senate, but now sources close to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say that Lieberman is basically just making noise so people will kiss his withered, pasty ass. Read more »
Okay, I’ll admit it: when Al Franken was finally announced as the winner in that clusterfuck of a Minnesota Senate race last year, I was skeptical. I mean, the U.S. Senate is filled with Herculean incompetents. Hell, some of them can barely wipe their own ass and remain lucid during a ten-minute speech (I’m looking at you Robert Byrd!), but something about Franken’s election just seemed so ridiculously laughable to me. Nowhere near as laughable as Minnesota electing an ex-pro wrestler as its governor, but still, very laughable. But with each passing day Franken is becoming perhaps my favorite person in the entire dysfunctional body. Case in point: this complete evisceration of a conservative think tank person who made the claim that universal health care would lead to an increased number of personal bankruptcies. Read more »
Well here’s something for people fond of governmental conspiracy theories to chew on…perhaps dark powerful forces intentionally ran the American economy into the ditch, while simultaneously escalating the costs of health care in order to get more people to enroll in the military, where they’d receive a steady salary and health benefits. Sure, this is patently absurd, but I don’t doubt for a second that some people will latch on to this theory after learning about Bill Caudle’s tragic tale. Read more »
Last night a freshman Democratic congressman from Florida, Rep. Alan Grayson, stepped up to the microphone on the floor of the House of Representatives and offered up his interpretation of the Republican’s alternative to President Obama’s heath care proposals. He broke the plan down into three points: 1) Don’t get sick, 2) And if you do get sick…, 3) Die quickly. Read more »
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