The health care reconciliation bill passed tonight, after Senate Republicans sent it back to the House and forced vote after vote on amendments they had no chance of winning.
So that’s it, it’s done. All the shenanigans are over (for now) and both bills are through. Whew.
Now Congress heads home for a 2-week break, with many Democrats facing threats and vandalism to their offices over their votes on health care. If the right weren’t so adamant about protecting the sanctity of life, I’d be a little worried.
Suck it, GOP. America doesn’t have the attention span to listen to you cry into your milk for six months. Face it – you lost. You need to move on.
And guess what – jobs are coming back, too. (Did I say suck it?)
But hey – after unanimously opposing economic recovery and univeral health care, maybe you can unite your opposition behind something equally unpopular. Like food.
2 weeks of tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. then it will be forgotten and the goodies kick in right before the election.
What 1,2 and 3 said. Yay!
@2: Hey, food is bad for you. It’s been implicated as the primary cause of obesity, causes countless choking accidents (some fatal!) every year, and is responsible for virtually all food poisoning cases. Abuse of food can lead to bulimia and food production generates vast amounts of farm runoff and other pollution. There’s a reason that most major religions have dietary restrictions telling people not to eat certain kinds of food; if we extend that moral principle, we should not eat any food, and live off of our atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breatharian…
And while we’re at it, we should ban DHMO.
http://www.dhmo.org/
I’m pleased as punch.
Most of you SLOGGers are going to finally be forced to pay into the system you’ve been milking for decades. Money for a new skateboard or iPod? Forget it…pay the IRS (who will be enforcing the payment scheme) the $200 a month or face fines, jail and imprisonment.
@6; You know that talk is cheap, and those rumors aren’t nice.
Bye-bye now.
@5; I avoid food and dihydrogen-monoxide as much as possible. Presently I am living on a diet sterno and walnut husks, and have yet to look back. Although the sterno has made me go blind, making it impossible for me to look back.
They really stuck it to the students, no pell grants for lazy communists!
maybe you can unite your opposition behind something equally unpopular. Like food.
They have. Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan introduced a food labeling bill in 2006 to limit the # of ingredients listed on nutritional labels, two months after California attorney general Bill Lockyer filed a suit against food processors for putting carcinogens in their products.
Senator John McCain of Arizona attempted this year to introduce legislation to restrict access of nutritional supplements and vitamins, with the idea that these products should have FDA approval prior to market. Of course the FDA is gutted, staffwise, so I guess when Republicans talk about government bloat they really mean agencies like Homeland Security. I’d have thought fiscal conservatives would rather spend a few cents on prevention than a whole lot of dollars on treatment, but maybe Republicans aren’t representing fiscal conservatives so much as they represent corporations.
I found some nifty apps online: how would the health care reform affect me?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/…
http://bit.ly/9IsdWW (link to Washington Post Online Tool)
And found that it wouldn’t. I don’t know what unregistered person would make a blanket statement attempting to cover individuals of varying income and family demographics claiming we’d all be impoverished. Must be that “real good Amurrican critical thinking” that comes from watching TV and listening to commercial radio.
@6: Read the bill.
USA! USA! USA!
America ftw!
by the way, did anyone else catch how the reconciliation amendments actually closed the Medicare tax exemption that rich people had – and apply to options, dividends, and bonus amounts?
SWEET!