And the Great Chicken Health Care Debate Rages On

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If this ends up being the way we have to go as a society, does that mean that Health Care will be controlled by ADM, Monsanto, and Cargill?

Just askin', is all...

Via (of course) Maddow Blog

It Tastes Like Burning

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Via The Maddow Blog

Pets

The cat (Hemingway) and the dog (Curly) act with each other like...well...cats and dogs.

But...and maybe it is because the weather has become colder...

I am sitting on the couch, the dog is sitting beside/behind me so...the cat has decided to sleep upon the dog.

Part of me wishes that I could turn around to take a picture of this but I know that it would upset the delicate balance.

If the cat and the dog can sleep together, if James Carville and Mary Matalin can sleep together, cannot Progressives and Tea Party Patriots get along?

Losing Ugly

Republicans weigh costs of losing ugly - Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan - POLITICO.com:

"The only thing worse than winning ugly is losing uglier.

The Democrats’ ungainly march toward a victory on health care reform Sunday night provoked a graceless response from angry House Republicans, who shouted insults across the chamber, encouraged outbursts from the galleries, brandished “Kill the bill” placards from the Speaker’s Balcony and, apparently, left veiled threats of electoral retribution on the benches of undecided Democrats."

I honestly thought that Monday would be quiet after the historic vote for the (flawed) HCR bill. Maybe I was being naive, maybe it was wishful thinking on my part. Around the interwebs, I see people who were against Health Care Reform saying that the people who were happy about this were uninformed or, frankly, idiots.

So, I am going to say to them what they said to be after the selection of George W. Bush in 2000.

"Get Over It! You Lost!"

Thanks, and hopefully, going forward, we can concentrate on what brings us together (like music) instead of what separates us.

My Favorite Sign from the HCR Debate

These are variations on the same theme of my favorite sign from the Tea Party Patriots regarding the HCR debate.

Maybe it is because I am being ironic, or maybe it is because when one side uses talking points as the basis of informed debate, the society as a whole loses.

I do have to add that I do believe that unless we, as a country, begin to come together, we are are going to fall apart.  The anger, distrust, and vitriol add nothing to the debate and serve to do nothing but enhance the reputations of bad men (unintelligent, illogical and piss poor personal choices being the metric for bad here) like Glenn Beck.

Images are from The Democratic Underground and the Denver Post.

HCR Passed

I watched C-SPAN for ten straight hours. I am too tired to type.

HCR Debate

You can watch it live on C-SPAN.

This is better sport than most of the NCAA games I have seen so far.

Follow Up To The Ohio Tea Party Attack on The Man With Parkinson

Chris Matthews interviews the President of AFP which is reference to this post from earlier.

How many people who are Tea Party Patriots or adherents to Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project identify as Christian? Would you venture to say that it is a majority? The reason I ask is because far too many Christians are cafeteria Christians, taking one verse from the Old Testament and another from the New Testament and the combining them to for something that does not fit within mainstream theology which they couple with a spurious understanding of American History and Political History.

I am looking forward to this being over one way or another.

If you want another perspective, The Young Turks covered this incident. Hearing Brian Unger say that, "You just can't reason with these douchebags," made me happier than I care to admit.

(Link to the MSNBC hosted video)

The Tea Part Patriots on HCR

Another video that is worth the 9 minutes. It makes me laugh. Zealots of any type are banal at best and terrifying at the very worst.

(Via VodPod)