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For the longest time, I was sure conservatives were intent on creating the nanny state. I was wrong. Somehow I missed that the yearning has been for Papa all along. Perhaps my eyes were opened by the newly elected Senator Scott Brown, whose life's ambition is to prove he can be a better father than his dad and, presumably, his step dad.

Samantha Bee thinks President Obama should never have made a concrete pledge to televise health negotiations on C-SPAN.

Watch Samantha's take on the stealth care debate

I think it's because there's an inability to anticipate what is going to happen next. And that's probably a consequence of an inability to track the sequence of events with any accuracy. It's as if information is randomized, like shuffling a deck of cards, BEFORE being stored in memory. Knowing what comes next is never identified. So, remembering the past is no help, if one wants to prevent making the same mistakes again.

SOURCE:Yahoo News

Obama directs $600M to health centers, med records

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer Philip Elliott, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 9, 1:46 pm ET

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the government is spending almost $600 million for community health centers and for a push to transfer medical records to electronic formats.

The White House painted the spending — part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in office — as a way to add jobs to a struggling economy. Officials also linked it to the administration's broader push for an overhaul of the nation's health system.

SOURCE:Think Progress

New Childish Republican Obstruction Tactic: Refusing To Use Their Assigned Cards In Order To Delay Votes

In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging in this tactic:

GRAYSON: They’d all walk to the front of the House and, laughingly and jokingly, put their arms around each other’s shoulder like it was some kind of clownish fun. And they did this over and over to make sure every vote took half an hour. That’s how low things have gotten. I could give you countless examples just like that. They’re simply obstructionists and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Gregg's a deprivator. His impulses towards greed and pride are gratified when others are deprived of the necessities of life.

Comparing himself to a postal worker is a bit disingenuous, since the postman actually delivers. Gregg has made a career out of being a Bartleby the Scrivener--a hirling who "prefers not to" do what he's asked.

The rallying cry for 2010 should be

*****NO MORE BARTLEBYS*****

This is what happens when you privatize your government

Dumping of 15 million low-income Americans into a medical ghetto called Medicaid that none of us or any of our families would ever want to be a part of for our health care...

..Moving 15 million Americans into this medical ghetto...

...Moving 15 million low-income Americans into a program called Medicaid which is a medical ghetto is not health care reform.

SOURCE:DailyKos

There's really no other way to explain why Senator Coburn has put a hold on S. 1963, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2009.

José Pequeño's name is ironic. In Spanish, "pequeño" means "small", but there is nothing small about this man, his family or the community that embraces him. Here is how Gary Sinise, Actresses Katie Holmes and Dianne West re-enacted the actual experiences of Staff Sergeant José Pequeño's family at the PBS Memorial Day Concert.

SOURCE: sunlightfoundation.com

Some really weird stuff went down when Sunlight gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a local couple.

SOURCE: http://awomanisnotapreexistingcondition.com/

Tell Congress being a woman is not a pre-existing condition