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All In The Family/Archie Bunker Update, 7:20pm Saturday.....The Fetishizing is getting downright scary...but the smart money still says that this was the result of a horse-trading 'deal' cut by Pelosi to keep the votes for to preserve the main prize....Meanwhile the laugable Republican alternative bill (eg. no protection against health coverage cancellation due to pre-existing teen-age acne) is up....
Double-Secret Probation Update, 6:50pm Saturday....Watching Dingall close out the Dems side of the debate...It's an anti-waterheaded bit of wordsmithing in which he invokes his father who tried to do for the American public what is happening tonight back in....1943.
(Update, 6:15 PST Saturday....Despite a passel of last ditch fetus-fetishizing....Politico is reporting that Nancy Pelosi has the votes locked up...here's hopin'!)
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I've been hanging around the Proggodome down South, on-and-off, pretty much all day long.
Why?
Because the U.S. Americans' Congress is debating a bill which, while far from perfect, could maybe/kinda/sorta actually start the ball rolling on real health care reform below the 49th parallel.
And as per usual, the good folks at Firedoglake are all over this one.
As a result, I was following a Live Blog from uber-pup Rayne when I came across the following regarding an argument 'against' reform that was 'raised' by Marsha Blackburn (R:InsuranceIndustryOfAmerica):
2:29 p.m. — Rep. Marsha Blackburn — finds this a very sad day to vote for this bill; cites examples of Canadian medicine where care wasn’t provided as horror stories…..Cites H1N1 (vaccine) shortage as example of failure of government healthcare....
Well.
Imagine my considerable consternation at such codswallop.
What to do....what to do?
I know.
I'll write them a comment AND a post (not that they need either from the likes of me)!
Here it is:
Sorry to go a little OT (but not really, because it speaks to the obfuscatory tactics of the 'Insurance Industry Protection Program' and their surrogates)
Marsha Blackburn can go to bloody hell.
Because up here in Canada, we are proud of how many folks with high risk of complication have been immunized against H1N1 already (ie. 20% of the total population in my province which represents 800,000 of mostly high risk folks in just two weeks since the publically-funded vaccine was rolled out).
What we do hate, however, are the selfish bastards of privilege who have been using the thin edge of the Anti-Universality wedge (ie. private clinics) to jump the queue and take vaccine from people that could actually die if they were to suffer complications due to this virus.
Bastards like this.
And this.
Marsha Blackburn is a shill and a liar.
It’s as simple as that.
(sorry for the interruption…and good luck with the vote folks…we’re pullin’ for you up here!)
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