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….they’re all a bunch of lying, low life, sacks of male bovine excrement, bottom feeders! But, I’m repeating myself, aren’t I. 
What the Senate Bill Would Do To America
The Foundry
Another day, another no-show for the Obamacare reconciliation bill. House Democrats were quick to shift blame to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) with Rep. Robert Andrews telling The Hill that the delay “has been much more technical than substantive. … It’s not like what tax has to go or what spending has to go.” Which is an interesting claim, since Politico reported that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was summoned to the White House yesterday afternoon “to discuss a higher-than-expected excise tax on some health care plans.” In fact, Politico added: “A labor source said Trumka’s meeting would focus on the entire bill, not just the excise tax question.” Sounds like more than just technical details are still in flux.
Born – 4 July 1776 ~ Died – 4 November 2008
Obama’s Ideology Threatens America
by J.D. Longstreet
I began this week with a small, very small, remnant of hope that the Democats/Progresssives/Socialist/Marxists in the US House of Representatives would fail in their under-handed, lowdown, sneaky, and in my opinion, dishonorable attempt to pass ObamaCare into law WITHOUT it ever having passed the House by a vote. But as the days have passed it has become ever more clear that that is exactly what they are going to do.
We have warned our readers over and over that America, under the Obama Regime, has become a Socialist republic, not unlike the Democratic Socialist Republic of the former Soviet Union, or the current Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea. America is no longer a constitutional republic as it has been since The Founders of our nation gave us the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
In less than a year and a half, Obama has fulfilled his campaign promise to “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE AMERICA!”
Read the WHOLE post here!
I’m not really sure how many more ways we can say it! This is NOT the America that the majority of the citizens want to live in. There will be no prosperity, no liberty, no ‘beacon of hope’ for the world.
More Delving
SEC. 1233. ADVANCE CARE PLANNING CONSULTATION.
Read the whole section. Look up references to ‘clearing houses’. Interesting. While this definition relates to investments, it pretty much sums up what most of the others say.
Page 1481- lines 19-23: ‘‘(E) An explanation by the practitioner of the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice, and benefits for such services and supports that are available under this title.
Page 1482 – lines 1-8: ‘‘(F)(i) Subject to clause (ii), an explanation of orders regarding life sustaining treatment or similar orders, which shall include—
‘‘(I) the reasons why the development of such an order is beneficial to the individual and the individual’s family and the reasons why such an order should be updated periodically as the health of the individual changes;
Pardon my supposed ignorance, but what business is it of the “Secretary”, or anyone else, for that matter, what goes on between a doctor, patient, and the family? Oh, oops. That’s right. Silly me.
Page 1546/1547 – lines 7-27, 1-6: Marriage and Family Therapist Services
‘‘(jjj)(1) The term ‘marriage and family therapist services’ means services performed by a marriage and family therapist (as defined in paragraph (2)) for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, which the marriage and family therapist is legally authorized to perform under State law (or the State regulatory mechanism provided by State law) of the State in which such services are performed, as would otherwise be covered if furnished by a physician or as incident to a physician’s professional service, but only if no facility or other provider charges or is paid any amounts with respect to the furnishing of such services.
‘‘(2) The term ‘marriage and family therapist’ mean an individual who—
‘‘(A) possesses a master’s or doctoral degree which qualifies for licensure or certification as a marriage and family therapist pursuant to State law;
‘‘(B) after obtaining such degree has performed at least 2 years of clinical supervised experience in marriage and family therapy; and ‘‘(C) is licensed or certified as a marriage and family therapist in the State in which marriage and family therapist services are performed.’’.
Defining a marriage councilor? All well and good. I go to my pastor, personally, if I have issues that need addressing, as do a great number of folks I know. I’m wondering if my pastor, and many others, will be prohibited from acting as councilors to their congregations under these new ‘rules’? When they say ‘legally authorized’, I’ve no doubt there will be consequences for any pastor, priest, etc., acting as a councilor.
Page 2147: SEC. 208. LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CIVIL LEGAL ASSISTANCE ATTORNEYS.
This section doesn’t say a whole lot, except changing dates, adding semicolons, etc. But I really have to ask….what do loan payment to lawyers have to do with so called ‘health care’?
LOANS ELIGIBLE FOR LIBOR-BASED CALCULATION? (page 2161) Isn’t that related to home loans? The name Fannie Mae popped up.
I notice this bill also address ‘education’. Education. EARLY childhood education.
Page 2271 – lines 16-24: Evaluating barriers to improving the quality of early learning programs serving low-income children, including evaluating barriers to successful interagency collaboration and coordination, by conducting a review of the statewide strategic reports developed by the State Advisory Councils on Early Care and Education and other relevant reports, reporting the findings of such review to Congress, and disseminating relevant research findings and best practices.
Small 2 legged guinea pigs to find out which methods of indoctrination works best? Just asking.
To quote a memo released yesterday by Ninny’s office (Office of the Assistant to the Speaker): Many of the conservative activists are not opposing the actual provisions in the bill, but are instead reacting to a caricature of the reform bill presented by right-wing media outlets. Uh. Wrong. On both counts! Folks out here are actually READING the bills you assjacks are shoving down our throats, while y’all are not! And we STILL oppose it!
Misdirection
While we have been paying attention to the Tax and Control Congress is trying to shove down our throats, the Democrats have come up with another way to further erode society. Yesterday, Rep. Fortney Stark (D-CA13) and 14 of his fellow Dem congress critters introduced H.R. 3827, magnanimously titled Every Child Deserves a Family Act. How can anyone argue with that? Of course every child deserves a family!
Unfortunately, the intent of such a bill is not a return to the value of the nuclear family. The family that prays together, stays together idea. It’s not even a bill that would help kids with abstinence, so they won’t be having children they can’t afford, nor know how to raise. It doesn’t address serious issue like the cycle of poverty, or drug abuse. No, what it does it is open the door for further erosion of what is right and wrong.
To prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identification, or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent.
Now, I don’t give a flying flip if a person is gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered, or whatever else they want to call themselves. That’s between them and God. Condoning sin, is sin.
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
That goes for the opposite as well. Now, I know there are way too many these days who are going to come out of the woodwork just to call someone like me all kinds of names, just because my faith teaches me right from wrong. That makes me ‘intolerant’, yada yada. Whatever! But when push comes to shove, wrong is still wrong. I won’t apologize for my faith.
Do I have a problem with gay couples fostering children? Honestly, no, not really, in the SHORT run. There are a lot of loving people of all “orientations”, who can provide for children until appropriate homes can be found for them.
One of the biggest problems in the U.S. right now is not the lack of couples wanting to adopt. It’s how difficult the bureaucracies have made it! Why not address this problem, instead of pushing the homosexual agenda? While I don’t believe that all homosexuals would consider abusing a child, anymore than all heterosexuals would. But, isn’t it quite possible this type of thing will open the door for such abuses?
We Said NO!
House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic — known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass” — has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
“It’s more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know,” the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. “But I like it,” she said, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”
I wonder which bloggers she was bumping her gums to/with? I can pretty much bet it wasn’t Michelle Malkin, Gateway Pundit, anyone from Pajamas Media. I can pretty much guarantee they didn’t invite Texas Fred. (Why does the mental image of Fred and the Ninny, together in the same room, make me laugh so hard? Hmm… Heh!)
First thing, go read that “self executing rule“. Seriously. GO READ IT! I’ll wait.
Of COURSE Ninny likes it!
Contemporary Use. Self-executing rules are still employed on matters involving House-Senate relations. They have also been used in recent years to enact significant substantive and sometimes controversial propositions.
Now I know just how so many of our freedoms have been eroded. Yes, perhaps I have been oblivious, not noticing the use of such an under handed tactic. Hey! I’m human. The examples provided in this .pdf, are rather small, compared to how they want to use it this time around. Banning smoking on domestic flights less than 2 hours long, while prohibiting personal choice, is NOT the same thing as taking over 1/6 of the American economy!
“When we have a bill, then we will let you know about the votes. But when we bring the bill to the floor, we will have the votes,” she told reporters.
Pelosi said Monday that House Democrats have yet to decide how to approach the vote. But she added that any strategy involving a separate vote on the Senate bill “isn’t too popular,” and aides said the leadership is likely to bow to the wishes of its rank and file.
Here’s a novel concept, you old windbag! Scrap that piece of crap at least 53% of the American people oppose! Those findings include 23% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% who Strongly Oppose it.
And……Obama flaps his gums:
“I don’t know about the politics, but I know what’s the right thing to do,” he said, nearly shouting as the crowd cheered. “And so I’m calling on Congress to pass these reforms — and I’m going to sign them into law. I want some courage. I want us to do the right thing.”
Bud the ONLY thing you know about is campaigning! You don’t know JACK about true leadership! While you may have won the election, you have lost the nation, as a whole. Oh sure, there are still some who buy into all that phony Hope-n-Change, but a vast majority have woken up from our stupor, and are now fighting for our very survival, as FREE Americans!
Asked whether he was reconsidering his position, Kucinich demurred. But Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said Kucinich is coming under intense pressure from Ohioans who want Congress to act, and from his colleagues in Washington.
“All of us — the governor, the congressional delegation, the president — are making clear to Dennis that we won’t have another chance for a decade if this doesn’t happen,” Brown said.
Do you get the impression that the Dems know they are going to lose the majority this year? If this happen, and I truly pray it does, it will take YEARS to attempt to undo the damage they have wrought on this country. Now is as good time as any to restore the U.S. Constitution to it’s rightful place….the LAW of the Land!
Just A Few Items
Page 87 – TREATMENT OF STATE BENEFIT MANDATES
Insofar as a State requires a health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage to include benefits beyond the essential benefits package, such requirement shall continue to apply to an Exchange-participating health benefits plan, if the State has entered into an arrangement satisfactory to the Commissioner to reimburse the Commissioner for the amount of any net increase in affordability premium credits under subtitle C as a result of an increase in premium in basic plans as a result of application of such requirement.
Just my opinion, but don’t the words “benefit” and “mandate” kind of cancel each other out?
Page 167-168 – TAX ON INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT ACCEPTABLE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.
‘‘(a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at
any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—
‘‘(1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over
‘‘(2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer.
If you can’t afford their version of “acceptable health care”, they will make you pay an increase in taxes you can’t afford to pay? 2.5% of the excess income? Do you have excess income? Well, those who live on our dime up there in D.C. might have some extra, but I don’t know anyone out here in the real world doesn’t it.
Page 1180 – SEC. 227. SENSE OF THE HOUSE REGARDING ENROLLMENT OF MEMBERS IN THE PUBLIC OPTION.
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that Members who vote in favor of the establishment of a public, Federal Government run health insurance option, and senior members of the President’s administration, are urged to forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option.
In other words, it would be nice if those who impose this crap on the American people would make use of it, but it’s not really necessary.
Is this thing giving anyone else a headache? I think that’s the whole idea. We’ll be going through this thing with a fine toothed comb, while those who wish to impose this crap on us, are chuckling at the idea that we care enough to read it, when they won’t.
Phone In For TN’s 7th
Just had a nice chat with a staffer at Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s Memphis office. Voiced my opinion, on the most recent shenanigans of the Democrats in D.C. However, that wasn’t my primary reason for calling them, believe it or not. Seems that when an email, inviting constituents to participate in a phone town hall, went out, they forgot to include our little corner of the 7th District. Heh. Well, luckily, they are going to rectify that problem, and Hardin County will be added to the list, with the appropriate phone number to call in tomorrow. 
Just thought if anyone around these parts got the same email, and wants to participate, you’ll be getting an updated email tomorrow morning. At least, I sure hope so!
It’s About Liberty!
I came across a ‘letter to the editor” on the Detroit Free Press this morning that hits on some good point of the Tea Party folks, and naturally, some of the responses show the absolute ignorance of many on the left. Go, check it out, and let me know…..is this ignorance an epidemic, or is there some hope for the clueless?
On the same topic, there was this column, from Lee Harris, on Gov Monitor:
The phrase “Wal-Mart Hippies” is certainly attention-getting, as was no doubt intended. After all, who would suspect that there lurked a secret affinity between the carefree flower children of late ’60s and the hard-working folks who shop at Wal-Mart?
The two groups would seem a study in antithesis. The flower children of the ’60s put flowers in gun barrels and chanted sweet songs of peace. At Wal-Mart people buy guns to put bullets in and use them to shoot cute and cuddly animals. Hippies scorned work and lived in idleness.
The Wal-Mart shopper often works two jobs just to squeeze by. Flower children listened to acid rock. The folks at Wal-Mart adore Country and Western. Hippies celebrated free love. The people who fill the aisles of Wal-Mart marry, settle down, and raise families—often quite large ones. The hippies grooved on Zen or chanted Hare Krishna. The Wal-Mart crowd happily keeps Jesus at the wheel. Flower children opposed war. The Wal-Mart shopper sends off sons and daughters to fight them.
But Brooks is not really comparing the Tea Party movement to the hippie movement of the ’60s. Instead, he is comparing it to the New Left of the same decade. In one respect he appears to have made an honest mistake.
In his mind, the New Left and the hippie movement have strangely merged. Members of the New Left “went to Woodstock”—didn’t they? Actually, no, they didn’t. We should not confuse the carefree, frolicking hippie movement of that era with the mirthless and dour New Left of the same period. Hippies were whimsical spirits. The New Lefties were mirthless zealots. Hippies smoked pot and had fun. New Lefties read Lenin and plotted revolution. New Lefties regarded hippies as frivolous and fatuous. Hippies looked on New Lefties as the ultimate downers.
If read Brook’s column, you must ask yourself…..DOES THIS MORON EVER LEAVE NEW YORK?
Being of the dope-smoking, peace and love, generation, I can tell you, there are HUGE differences between those who actually shop at Wally World, and those who walked around barefoot, with flowers in their greasy hair, smelling like horse dung, hitch hiking all around the country, spreading the “word” of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Amazing….some of us actually GREW UP! Reality will do that to ya!
This “new left”, in my personal opinion, are the red headed step children of those who came before. While my generation talked about changing the world, for the better in some ways, with all kinds of flowery bs, this bunch wants to actually change the world by destroying anything that is good and positive within the human experience. And that will just NOT do!
Reconcile THIS!
In case you aren’t aware, the bozos up in D.C. have posted the latest version of “destroy America” bill on the internet. All 2,309 pages of it. I’ve been trying to go through it, and actually get a few things done around here at the same time, but let me tell ya, if you thought previous versions were bad, wait till you get a gander at THIS one! TRILLIONS in spending! That’s a whole number, with 12 zeroes!
Student loans? Hispanic serving institutions? I’m sure I’ll be posting things as I come across them, but in the mean time, do a little reading on your own.
Gum Bumping
So, Harman thinks she needs to teach a class to her fellow spineless Democrats, when it comes to “talking tough”. She’s forgotten, however, talk is cheap. Well, except when it comes to Congress. Here’s a novel concept: How about instead of learning how to ’sound’ tough, when it comes to America’s national security, try actually BEING tough to protect Americans from the onslaught of the illegals, the Muslims, and any home growns? Wouldn’t that be more productive? Hmmmm….?
Scrap The Crap
Do you ever feel like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole, into an alternate reality, where up is down, and wrong is right? Well, I’m sure that’s how most us feel these days. At least those of us old enough to remember a time when the government pretty much left us alone, and allowed us to make our own decisions. You know, like grown ups.
The more I delve into this whole health care manure, the more I feel like Alice chatting with that hookah smoking caterpillar. There is no reality, and nothing makes any sense.
Message From Marsha
Email from Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN-7th):
Rumors about what could happen with the health care bill next week are spreading across Capitol Hill. I thought I would pass on those I am reasonably sure are accurate.
We KNOW two pieces of legislation will need to pass the House. The Speaker will need to find votes for the bill that passed the Senate last Christmas Eve (the Senate bill). The Majority is also putting together a second bill, the reconciliation bill, which makes “fixes” to the Senate bill to make it palatable to House Democrats.
We HEAR the Democrat leadership team could make this reconciliation bill available publicly over the weekend. Some Members have indicated that this bill will be publicly available for a week before it comes up for a vote.
We KNOW the Majority had hoped to pass the Senate bill and the reconciliation bill under what is called a “self-executing rule.” In this scenario, the House would first vote for a rule that says any vote to pass the reconciliation bill is essentially a two-fer which would also constitute a vote on the Senate bill. The Speaker then planned to hold the Senate bill until the Senate passed the reconciliation bill, thus guaranteeing the Senate would act on House priorities before the President could sign anything into law. The Senate Parliamentarian popped this balloon yesterday by instructing the Leadership that the President must first sign the Senate bill before the Senate could act on the reconciliation bill.
We HEAR the Parliamentarian’s decision has made things difficult for the Speaker. It is one thing for the Speaker to ask Members to trust her; it is entirely different to ask them to trust the Senate. As one colleague said, “The Republicans are the opposition, but the Senate is the enemy.”
We KNOW the White House had initially set next Thursday as the deadline for House action on the bill- the date the President was scheduled to depart for Asia. The deadline has been pushed back, as has the President’s trip.
We HEAR we can expect a vote next week or possibly next weekend. This will make the week to come very interesting and very important.
As always, I will keep you updated as events develop.
If, and I repeat a HUGE IF, Congress had two brain cells to rub together, common sense, and was actually ethical, this whole piece of crap legislation would never have gotten this far, AND, since it did, they’d scrap the whole thing, and start over with some REAL effort to aid in the costs of health care. That’s not the purpose though, and we know it. They KNOW that we KNOW, but they don’t give a damn.
“Comprehensive”? To Whom?
The NEW Amnesty Bill
Amnesty For Illegal Aliens On The Way Back To Congress
‘Comprehensive’ Immigration Bill That Includes Amnesty.
‘Pathway to Citizenship’ for Illegal Aliens.
by J. D. Longstreet
Just a couple of tiny snippets:
Well, this week, the President will be meeting with Shumer and Graham for a progress report on the immigration bill they have been working on.
I think we all are aware of what “revised” means to the Obama Regime. Think ObamaCare and ObamaCare 2.0. The latter was supposed to be the revised bill. It was, in fact, the original bill with a couple, or three, Republican suggestions thrown in to make it more palatable to the GOP and the American people. But, as nobody has actually seen a hard copy of the bill, doubt remains that ObamaCare 2.0 even exists.
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I shouldn’t have to ask this question, but it seems I must. Have you stopped to consider how many millions more will pile onto “the dole” US taxpayers will have to support if this NEW amnesty bill passes? 12 million is a drop in the bucket to the REAL figure, which you are NOT going to hear bandied about by this administration, nor the democrat/progressive/socialists in the Congress.
Just as we believe the REAL unemployment figure is closer to 20% than it is to the 9.7% being reported by the government, and the number of jobs lost last month, we believe, is closer to 50,000 than it is to the 36,000 the government reported, we believe the real figure representing illegal aliens in America today is closer to 36 million than to the 12 million, or so, the government has been reporting.
Read the entire post here.
My first response: Are they flippin’ insane? Then I realized, this is a rhetorical question. Of course they are. No one who has an tiny fraction of sanity would even consider a move like this, so they must be insane.
Second response: Lindsay Graham doesn’t like working in Washington. Throw in this, and you’ve got a veritable Democrat in RINO clothing. Wait a minute, I’m repeating myself. Hmm….
I know, I’m going to get all the usual “raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist” crap, but I don’t give a flip. Call me what you want, but when it comes down to MY home, I don’t much care for people breaking in, and stealing what little I’ve got left. Got it?
What it all boils down to…. “We will give you a vote, if you vote for us!” It’s a power thing. Had absolutely NOTHING to do with all those ‘poor people who are just searching for a better life’! Yeah, at the tax payer’s expense in quite a few cases. Oh, I know there are some who really DO want to work hard, provide for their families, but those folks are the ones who usually go through the LEGAL process, and are pushed aside in favor of their ILLEGAL ‘cousins’.
J.D. goes on:
No, they are not nuts. As we have learned, they just don’t care what you and I think, or want, or NOT want, as the case may be. We don’t count with the current government. They are far smarter than we. They know far better than we what is good for us.There is very little fear of our dissenting votes in Washington, anymore.
The progressive/socialists have managed to secure the votes of the less literate among us in such large numbers as to override our dissenting votes. We warned, months ago, that the progressive/socialists had dispatched armies of “helpers/organizers” into the field to register “new” voters from among those whose livelihood depends on the government check they receive the first of each month. And it worked in 2008.
We can NOT let it work again in 2010, or 2012. If we don’t put a stop to this reckless behavior of our so called representatives, the United States of America, will likely, be no more. And that’s just not acceptable!
Handy Dandy Guide To Big Spending Votes
Yep, it’s finally here. A guide to every member of the House of Representatives’ voting record on HUGE spending bills. Take a look at how your state’s rep is voting on the bills a vast majority of folks have decried for the past two years.
Since we live in Tennessee, I have a screen shot of those from our state. (Go look up your own state. 
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I found this useful little guide through this story from World Net Daily.
You asked for it! The big-spender scorecard
Find out right now which ‘bums’ supported bailouts, cap and trade, health ‘reform’
Tea partiers now have a new, simple guide for when they have questions about how their lawmakers voted on controversial measures such as the TARP bill, auto bailout, cap and trade, food regulations and health-care reform bill.
A new congressional scorecard details votes by House members on key measures, many of which have been cited by the tea-party movement as evidence of growing federal government control and excessive spending.
The scorecard, created by Army Reserve veteran Dave Kittley using information from Govtrack.us, also features a red label next to each member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, or CPC, the largest caucus within the Democratic caucus in Congress.
I, for one, appreciate all the work that must have gone into pulling this chart together. Puts thing is a much clearer perspective, IMHO.
CPC was set up in 1991 by then-Rep. Bernie Sanders, in conjunction with Democratic Socialists of America and the far left Institute for Policy Studies. Its statement of purpose reads:
“The Progressive Caucus is organized around the principles of social and economic justice, a non-discriminatory society and national priorities which represent the interests of all people, not just the wealthy and the powerful.
Our purpose is to present thoughtful, practical solutions to the economic and social problems facing America. Our people-based agenda extends from job creation to job training, to economic conversion, to single payer healthcare reform, to adequate funding for the AIDS crisis, to environmental reform, and to women’s rights. …”
The CPC promotes a strong “progressive agenda,” what it calls “The Progressive Promise – Fairness for All.”
So, what we have here is a “congress” inside the Congress, pushing socialist agendas? Note that “in conjunction with Democratic Socialists of America” part. Want a REAL “education, check out their ‘youth’ newsletter, THE RED LETTER. And these are the people PUSHING the agenda? Anyone else want to tell me there is no socialist take over going on??? Lock and load!
You can read the rest of the piece here, and come to your own conclusions. There is a pretty good round up, touching on what each of the bills in question covers.
Update From Rep. Blackburn
Received via email from my rep:
Yesterday The Tennessean ran an opinion column I wrote about the benefits of purchasing insurance across state lines. You can read it here.
I also mentioned the benefits on Face the Nation here.
On Face the Nation, I discussed the core problem with the current health care bill. It is the same fundamental flaw that caused a health care crisis in Tennessee through TennCare. Both plans depend on a central gamble; that all the short term health care spending the goverment does will be recouped by long term savings. In Tennessee, those savings never materialized. If the current health care reform bill passes, I worry that they won’t materialize for America either.
In Tennessee, TennCare ultimately grew to consume a third of the state’s budget. America can’t afford the same kind of cost explosion.
Face The Nation videos:
No doubt in my mind, Steny Hoyer may have been at this joke of a forum, physically, but I don’t think he was there mentally. He sure isn’t reflecting what I saw at the Obama Show.
