On Satuday, the the Senate will vote on whether to move Reidcare forward by cutting off further debate on the issue. Senate Republican Tom Coburn, who had promised to read the entire bill into the record before such a vote, has relented and decided that it’s more important that everybody get home way before Thanksgiving.
We wouldn’t want Senators and their aides to have to fight the holiday traffic like the rest of us, would we? And debate? I hear it’s highly overrated. At any rate, it’s becoming a thing of the past.
Let the wild rumpus begin!
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
November 20th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I don’t know whether “think of the past” is a typo or a clever play on words, but I like it. It does seem as if thinking is an obsolete concept, at least in Congress.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Given the magnitude…
If I were a Senator, I’d read the whole thing.
And that says a lot as choosing family is more important. But this is bad for my family, your family, everybody’s family.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Everyone,
Send an E-mail to Senator Coburn. I just have. You can find an e-mail contact form on his website.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
There really should be a protest of people wearing some sort of sci-fi goggles and demanding transparency.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
There are times when a single statement can prove you are not worthy of the job you hold. Senator Coburn just made his.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
SH*T.
Oh, to be governed by the first 535 names in the phonebook.
What we have is a bunch of invertebrates anatomically unable to stand up for what is right. Jellyfish, actually.
November 21st, 2009 at 7:14 am
A brief interlude.
This has nothing to do with the health care takeover, but it does have to do with biology.
It is way cool. Drag the slider slowly to zoom in.
Cell Size and Scale
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