11 years is a long time to do anything.
By Snipzor 2 Comments
I can totally convince you that its a long time even for the legislative process. Fun fact, in The Iliad, the siege lasted 10 years. Not 11, not 100, 10 years. I know it's an epic poem (And it truly is an awesome poem), but epic lasts 10 years. 11 years for a single bill to pass is quite long and overdue by at least... 10 years. We should have been holding a siege if we had known this would last 11 years.
Hey while you are doing that, do what Arlen Specter says and repeal DOMA and DADT. No? What a shock. Listen, whenever somebody says I'm a partisan hack, do me and them a favour and point them to some of my blogs, because I'm not going to advertise it.
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And Now For Something Completely Different
The Public Option is in!
*cheers from the crowd*
It's automatically in the bill and states will have to opt out from it!
*Continued Cheers*
It's triggered
*boo*
I could try to talk about the trigger, but even I've got no idea how in the hell to describe it. So I'll talk about two things.
1) The premiums have shot up when the news on this has come up. Now why do you think this is? Because the health insurance industries want to make it seem like the public option is the reason for the rising premiums, therefore creating a fake opposition to it in the senate. What a bunch of slimy bastards. You would be smart to disregard that fear mongering tactic, I know you are. Unfortunately the people who oppose it will use it to further their bullpucky case as to why even this conservative public option is bad for America due to roots in socialist policies and all of that gibberish.
2) Joseph Lieberman will try to block this. Yes, the shifty no-party bastard will try to pretend to be a democrat and block this. Which essentially means it will have to go from 50 votes to pass this, to 60 votes to pass this vote. Which essentially means he will stop this from going into law. Now before you grab a baseball bat to break his kneecaps, consider this....
There's nothing to consider. Joe Lieberman (Excuse me if I've misspelled that) is a gutless non-human Dickensian Dicking machine, and deserves a ton of scorn. Try flooding his emails with that scorn and put the bat away.
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And now, something celebratorial
Shep Smith is showing some backbone on Fox News, apologizing for their interviewers lack of balance on the show. This was live. I don't care what his politics is, Shep Smith is possibly the most awesome man in the American Media. Let us celebrate his awesomeness with this clip of him talking about an abomination of a burger.