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The Health Care Albatross and some advice for the Dems

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Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216.  She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. 

But with them so close to their goal, we [...]

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Ray Stevens doesn't seem to like ObamaCare

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From YouTube. 

It looks like it was posted back in the early part of December, but I’m just seeing this now, thanks to an email and link to the Ace of Spades Over Night Thread. 

Here we’ve got Ray Stevens in various attire getting his dander up about suffocating old people thanks to our soon-to-be new health [...]

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Give us your tired, your poor, your HIV infected....

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This has been discussed for quite a while, and it has of course been controversial ever since its implementation, but thank goodness we’ve finally gotten around to lifting the ban on HIV infected tourists. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together announced the [...]

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2009: The year the wheels came off GLOBAL WARMING

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A lot of bad things happened in 2009.  We got Obama.  The economy took a nose-dive.  The best health care system on earth is being obliterated.  The Bears missed the playoffs… again.

But if there’s one good nugget you can take from such a miserable year, it’s that finally, after decades of being the biggest naked [...]

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Pence gives sage advice to Dems on Fox News Sunday

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Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference gave the Dems some very sound advice today when he stopped by to chat with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. 

Chris, I think the message from last night is that Democrats didn’t get the message in August or last Tuesday.

But last night, on a narrow partisan [...]

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How bad is it for Dems at these town hall meetings?

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Pretty bad.

Here’s one from Frozen Tundra Land, where Representative Gwen Moore from Milwaukee has returned home to seek the counsel and wisdom from her district, or something like that. 

The first thing you’ll notice when you read the news stories from reporters coming back from these meetings is that they are just plain, outright shocked  that [...]

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Rasmussen: 54% oppose higher taxes for Universal Health Care

Usually the way these things go is that a general idea gets support, but when the actual specifics come out, popularity begins to sink.

Not so, apparently, with the idea of health care reform, where 54% of Americans are opposed to having their taxes raised for it right out of the gate.  I would have assumed [...]

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