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December 9, 2009
All Apologies
Posted at 4:03 pm, in: Uncategorized

I would just like to take a moment to apologize to my regular readers for my extended absence, as of late. Last week I was up in the great state of Maine for a wedding and this week I’m finishing up work for the grad class I’m in at one school while working on my thesis for the grad program I’m in at another. Busy times!

Plus, with friends coming into town this weekend, and being scheduled to defend the indefensible (that would be my thesis that one professor said should just be called “Arguments Against Abortion Rights) next Wednesday, I don’t see me getting on here too much to comment on the news of the day between now and then.

Fingers crossed that they let me graduate. I’m ready to be done with school and return to those things in life that really matter, like talking trash about Meghan McCain and my random political thoughts and comments of the day!

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December 4, 2009
My love for Tom Coburn is still growing
Posted at 12:19 pm, in: Health Care
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Add this to my growing list of reasons I love Tom Coburn:

Two of the Senate’s most ardent opponents of a public health program, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and David Vitter (R-La.), are preparing an amendment to force members of Congress into any plan that is passed.

As the Senate formally takes up the healthcare reform bill this month, Coburn and Vitter are drafting legislation that mimics a resolution Vitter unsuccessfully offered in August that would have required lawmakers to join any public option plan.

The current amendment would go further — not only barring members of Congress from exempting themselves from a public plan, but actually forcing them into it. Vitter is also considering proposing banning physician services currently available to legislators at the Capitol as well as special privileges they are allowed at military hospitals. Specifically, members of Congress receive taxpayer-subsidized medical care at Bethesda Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Vitter plans to announce the amendment on Friday. Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) has introduced a similar measure in the House.

I’m still hoping and praying this whole bill dies, but in the event that doesn’t happen, these losers should be subject to the same system we all are. Why do they have to ruin America?

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Could abortion kill the health care bill?
Posted at 12:08 pm, in: Abortion, Health Care
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This might not be as bad as it sounds:

An amendment restricting abortions does not appear to have enough support to be attached to the Senate healthcare bill.

Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) said he expected that all but a few Republicans would support the Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb) amendment, which would restrict access to abortions for women who receive federal subsidies.

But the amendment is likely to be subject to the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, and Kyl does not expect 20 votes on the other side to back the controversial change.

“Most Republicans will but I don’t think that will be enough to carry it through, it’s a 60-vote margin,” Kyl told The Hill Thursday afternoon.

Republicans control only 40 seats, which means Nelson would have to pick up the support of at least 19 Democrats (or 18 plus one of two independents), an unlikely scenario given strong opposition from the Democratic base.

Liberal Democrats were confident the measure, based on an amendment Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) succeeded in adding to the House bill, would not pass the upper chamber.

I’ve been thinking about this whole abortion issue, a lot. I don’t know how our constitutional lawyer president somehow doesn’t get that the Constitution doesn’t grant him the right or authority to provide health care for the uninsured masses using my money and that it, certainly, doesn’t give him the authority to take my money to pay for some poor slut to take the life of her unborn child, but let’s try to move forward.

I’ve been thinking about this in a purely political way. If there is no restriction on the use of federal funding to finance abortion that might just tip the scales to the point that makes the bill unacceptable to vote for. If you trust public opinion polls, which for the most part I don’t, the country is trending more “pro-life” for the first time in decades. If that is true, then it will probably be unacceptable to most Americans if our elected officials vote to steal from them to finance abortions. Not that these tyrants seem to care what the people want, but maybe that will tip it and convince these morons to vote against the bill. Could the abortion issue kill this so-called reform?

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