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While you were sleeping America-haters totally beat the shit out of the America that slept peacefully beside you, disfiguring its face to the point where the founders who created it wouldn’t be able to ID it if, you know, any of them were still alive besides Robert Byrd:
Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in the pre-dawn hours early Monday, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas.
“Let’s make history,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, shortly before the bill’s supporters demonstrated their command of the Senate floor in an extraordinary holiday season showdown.
This means a clearance sale on deeply discounted abortions (only $1 apiece… so stock up now and beat the rush. They also make lovely stocking stuffers!) and, of course, the death panels which means that Sarah Palin is, at this moment, bundling up lil Trig and stashing him in a basket among the reeds along the Nugnugaluktuk River.
It’ll be the first time the kid has been warm this winter.
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Thanks for the link.
Makes me real proud of Obama.
Ooooh, I just love that there’s a blog monitoring the exploitation of Trig.
I’m surprised Palin hasn’t dumped him in a snowbank and forgotten about him until, you know, she needs to hoist him like a sack of potatoes for yet another photo op. I bet she’s secretly pissed he doesn’t match her Louis Vuitton luggage.
I expect the Wasilla Grifter will be feeding poor Trig to the Wolverines!!one!!11 before the 2012 circus rolls around. Then, her only problem will be keeping Piper from hooking up with her generation’s version of Levi Johnston.
Maybe that new crib she’s building will have an escape-proof room.
“Since Sarah’s book money started rolling in she has spent big bucks on renovating her face…”
Oh noes! Wouldn’t it be a shame if Sarah botoxed until she couldn’t wink? It just wouldn’t be the same for Richie Lowry and Billy Kristol.
TBogg, how the hell do you find these weird websites?
So very striking how this health care package really does resemble plastic fantastic crap from walmart that no one really wants or can use, but is supposed to look really impressive with a big box and shiny pictures (“made in china! some assembly required! batteries not included! photo shows optional parts not included! must register for additional features! keep children from licking paint! if small parts break off it’s a feature, not a bug”). This in place of something genuinely useful like, you know, health care reform.
I still can’t get over the fact that we’re somehow supposed to celebrate legislation that forces poor people to buy health care, then uses tax money stolen from the rest of us to subsidize the very insurance companies that will now be handed additional millions of customers to exploit and abuse. If that’s reform then I’d hate to see obama’s idea of a revolution (“okay, first we give those in power more power, and then we make it, like, totally illegal to be unhappy with that… oh, and I know: taxes and — shit, why not — big fines for being unemployed, and free guns if you’re already rich…”)
Obama promised a fucking revolution? When the hell was that?!
The only way Obama can redeem himself after this monstrosity passes is to include in his next State of the Union Address:
“Congress must lower the age for Medicare to 55 as soon as possible. Pass it through reconciliation now or never.”
Otherwise — Howard Dean for President 2012.
Desperate for another legislative success and determined to be re-elected, Obama will next propose The Mandatory Bible Ownership and School Prayer Act of 2010. The act will pass, but only after Harry Reid masterfully puts together 60 votes by making Israel the 51st state to get Lieberman and forbidding abortions on any day but February 31st to get the “moderate” Democrats and “liberal” Republicans.
hell, no, he never did — but listening to the tea baggers, you’d think so. just pointing out how reactionary his hopey-changey deal is turning out to be.
HAHAHA!! Just checked my go to guy on health care economics, The Golden Voice of the Universities of Pennsylvania and Chicago, the one and only Megan McCardle:
“We’ve just increased substantially the supply of unrepealable, unsustainable entitlements.”
Yes, Meggers – for the fucking insurance companies.
Oh my, I floated my cursor over the picture and saw Mr. Tbogg’s supersecretspecial note to Rich Lowry! I’m sorry. I’m pretty sure I don’t have the appropriate clearance for that.