There is a “Deem and Pass” rule that will be used by Democrats to pass the Health Care vote in the House, because they can’t get the votes even with all of their arm twisting and so they are going to just “declare” that the Senate bill in its original form is passed. They will refer to this bill as “self executing”. The Democrats are working on the "Meme" that SOME health care bill must be passed by this congress "no matter what it takes". They are declaring that the ends justify the means. But basically what this health care bill does is to make the many suffer for the benefit of the few. There are a few people who see their insurance rates skyrocketing so fast that they can no longer make the payments. Certainly these are cases warranting our sympathy. But I don't know if you should try to circumvent any vote on the Senate bill just to get around the fact that they dont have the votes despite all the arm twisting and deal making that's been done. It just seems a little sneaky to me, even if the Republicans have used this maneuver, too. I’m worried about the popular backlash from this procedure, and I don’t like the idea of a bill becoming law whose validity is in question. It just means when the Republicans are in power they will do it to us back, only they will do it dirtier. And so the process goes on and on. This idea of staking everything on one bill is a false "meme". We can hope everyone will regard the bill as so wonderful that "we wonder how we ever lived without it". I've thought about this and just don't see that scenario happening. There are underlying forces driving up medication costs and hospital costs that are beyond the control of even the health care providers.
This Toyota Preas case is looking a little bogus at this point. The man driving on interstate 8 in San Diego county claims he was standing on the break while the car sped up to 94 mph. And yet tests done on the car show that the man alternated between the accelerator and the brake 250 times, which was all the equipment could record. Apparently the man never thought of either turning off the engine, and he never tried to put the car into neutral. He said he was afraid the car would do something even stranger. Now they are investigating the man's economic problems to see if they are providing some motivation for his actions.
The weather is in the news in much of the United States. It seems you know when spring is arriving because the weather turns more violent. You had that "no name hurricane" on the east coast they've been talking about in the news for days. Fargo, North Dekoda is a strange place because the land is almost completely flat and the river, when it does flow, flows north. This may turn out to be a record year as far as rivers overflowing their banks is concerned.
Tiger Woods seems to have re-thought his statement given only a few weeks ago that he has no idea when he will return to playing golf. He had said something about "Hopefully it will be within the year. I'm not ruling it out". Now we hear he's playing at Augusta in just a few, where they say the media is more controlled than at any other golf tournament. Someone on TV said "basically he's not missing a single key tournament this season". Meanwhile John Edward's one time lover, Real Hunter, is back in the news. Now she is saying that Edwards fell in love with her the first time they met, and that he is still in love with her, and his marriage to Elizabeth was already a shambles when they met. We're all wondering why Edwards had the affair, when if Edwards hadn't had the affair he could be President today. It seems that Bill Clinton is the only person who got pass after pass when it came to having questionable affairs. The more women he was tagged with it just seemed to increase his popularity. Even good "religious" people like Gene Scott and Dennis Prager seemed only to increase their admiration for Clinton, the more obvious it became that Clinton was a sex addict. There is no accounting for what "religious" people think.
Jerry Brown's lead over Meg Whitman is "evaporating" in the California governor's race. That's interesting because I never knew that Jerry Brown was ahead. He only got into the race a couple of weeks ago. Also Meg Whitman's lead over primary rival Steve Poizener is increasing. Neither of these results are surprising. I have never seen such a saturation commercial campaign this early by one candidate pointing out where the other candidate's "conservative" credentials were in question. Of course "money talks" and Meg Whitman has an enormous amount of money to spend in this governor's race this year. The people will believe whatever the media tells them to. I'm still a registered Republican and I'm voting for poizoner just because I don't think you should be able to "buy" a governor's race. But I'll be voting for Jerry Brown in November.
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