Yesterday I played catch-up. I replied to all the outstanding comments and returned visits to those who had posted them. I also visited the first half of our blogroll. I expect to stay up to date through Monday, but next week, you may see very little of me.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:54. I was at a disadvantage. It’s a dawg. :-( To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From LA Times: The nation’s largest association of doctors [AMA] and the AARP senior citizens’ lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama’s revised health overhaul legislation.
I think this may be a done deal it the House, but frar the Senate process.
From Huffington Post: Hoping to assuage progressive Democrats who remain disappointed with the content of the health care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) committed on Friday to holding a separate vote on a public option in the coming months.
In a letter to two of his more progressive colleagues in the Senate — Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Bernie Sanders of Vermont — the Nevada Democrat implicitly apologized for his inability to get a government-run insurance plan into the final piece of health care legislation and promised to keep working to get the policy into law.
That’s great if it’s a reconciliation vote. But if it’s the standard 60 votes to pass, it would be better to change the filibuster on the first day of the session next January and then vote on it.
From Think Progress: Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), a far right lawmaker who has led much of the opposition to health reform, took to the floor of the House of Representatives last night to deliver a diatribe against health reform. Previously, Broun had compared President Obama to a dictator who would impose martial law. But last night, Broun out-performed his reactionary colleagues and even his own track record of absurdity. Bellowing into the microphone, Broun said that “if ObamaCare passes,” a “free insurance card” (which is not in the bill) will be “as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the “Great War of Yankee Aggression“.
No wonder the GOP can’t fathom that elections have consequences. These fools haven’t even come to terms with the consequences of the Civil War! Not only that, but wasn’t that ‘Yankee Aggression’ the GOP policy at the time?
From Crooks and Liars: This is hilarious!
It’s the first time I’ve ever heard truth from either of them!
Cartoon:
Whatcha doing this weekend?
6 Responses to “Open Thread – 3/20/2010”
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Broun – the Civil War was over 150 years ago and you lost – get the fuck over it. If you want to secede, please go right ahead.
That vid was hilarious!
Amen Lisa!
Okay, that video made me laugh right out loud. Someone is a genius. 🙂
Josie, that’s sure the truth! I wish it had been me!
WRT the Public Option promise of Reid (and since there’s no reference provided for HTML coding, and Blockquotes can be done a number of ways, I’ll just italicize it)
“The search now is for a vehicle outside health care reform to get a public plan into law. The same institutional hurdles that killed the provision in the previous go-rounds — mainly that there aren’t 60 supportive senators to break a filibuster — remain. But aides on the Hill are already looking to future reconciliation vehicles to which they can attach the public plan, which would, in turn, allow for it to pass via an up-or-down vote.”
[Emphasis added]
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/reid-promises-separate-pu_n_506272.html
Thanks, Nameless. If we go that way, we have a good chance to pass it.