Policywanker

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JULY 1, 2009 11:41AM

Senator Smalley is Good Enough and Smart Enough

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Senator Smalley is Good Enough and Smart Enough


...and doggone it, the Minnesota Supreme Court likes him.

POLICYWANKER SOAPBOX: Senate Edition

   With that, the Democrats achieve their three decade goal of a filibuster-proof margin to fuck up the Republicans.
   Let's see how long it takes them to really screw the pooch. As nothing messes with small minds like absolute power.
   Take, for example, the proposed revamping of our national Health Care system. With drug and insurance money pouring into every congressional orifice, how long will it take for Dems to swoon under the pressure and "just so happen" to listen to their concerned constituents back home and call for the preservation of personal choice. 
   Personal choice, these are the buzz words of the current rash of commercials hitting the airwaves to scare the gray hairs into calling Washington to plead for no change in the rape and pillage policies of corporate controlled health care.
   The ads paint a soviet picture of faceless physicians clueless to our ills and prescription needs. "My doctor" will be lost from our lexicon as we are poked and prodded by anonymous hacks who don't know "where it hurts".
   Policywanker points out to these stupid suckers that "where it hurts" is in their slowly shrinking net worth. While co-incidentally, industry analysts have just reaffirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of health care giant Regence Blue Shield (Full Disclosure: These fuckers are Policywanker's insurers and have just increased his premium, again.) as Excellent.
   Congratulations Regence.
   Which brings Policywanker back to our newest senator.
   Al Franken is a funny guy. Not the funniest. But funny enough.
   He believes in Universal Health Care, the single-payer kind. Let's see how firmly he holds to this position, withstanding the pressures to amend it to continue clipping the middle-class to foot the bill for poorer citizens.
   And then, we'll see who's laughing.

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Blackflon
July 01, 2009 12:06 PM
I think Stewart worked at one time at Amphibian House Recovery Center (see my post from yesterday)
noah tawls
July 01, 2009 12:13 PM
What Blackflon said.
Deborah Young
July 01, 2009 12:24 PM
Ahealth care plan that doesn't treat everyone and provide the same care for everyoone isn't a plan it's a disaster. Sooner or later we will get a single payer, universal health plan, the question is how many people need to die before it comes. Doctors, Lawyers and Insurance company executives will one day have to face the reality that even if some people can keep them in vacation cruises and Ferraris that the well will dry up and people will slowly quit taking care of themselves simply because they can't afford it.
bobbot
July 01, 2009 12:29 PM
"the question is how many people need to die before it comes" ...
perhaps after the last baby boomer has died
noah tawls
July 01, 2009 12:57 PM