I planned to do the first installment of the two part Big Healthcare Post for Monday, but the precarious health status of my best non-human friend has prevented me from devoting much time or mental energy to it this evening.
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Tuesday it is.
In the meantime, Glenn Beck is leading the totally predictable jihad against John Roberts. Part of me wonders about the odds that going full apeshit on Roberts will turn him into the next Anthony Kennedy – a swing vote despite being mostly shriveled and to the right of Goldwater on the inside.
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One thing I can't imagine, though, is that turning Roberts into persona non grata in conservative circles will not have some observable effect on the man.
Middle Seaman says:
The health care reform is a Republican program, designed, discussed by them and implemented by Romney in MA. Now they hate it, now it will destroy the country, now it is the worse reform ever. Alice of magic world has never imagined Republican black magic. (Must be Obama.)
Roberts will remain conservative. May be even more so. Kennedy is not much of a swinger. Citizen United and the 2000 election show that he is too thick to realize what he is doing.
We got a minimal reform that caused maximal upheaval. One shouldn't expect more from a banana republic.
Doomed, we are says:
I hope the little guy pulls through! Sending healthy-rat thoughts your way.
As to the rest I'm struggling to muster up any enthusiasm for health insurance reform. I'm glad they're adding some rules & getting more people covered, but it's not going to address the issue that we pay far more money for worse outcomes than the rest of the civilized world (worse even than some allegedly less civilized places). The insurance industry just skims money off the system without adding value.
So, in summary, meh.
Number Three says:
Best wishes!
c u n d gulag says:
Best wishes, also too!
What a bunch of WATB's these Conservatives are.
In comparison, we on the left stayed relatively calm as the Rehnquist Court gave A FECKIN' PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO W, and Robert's SC undermined representative democracy with the "Citizens" decision.
And you evil assholes are having epic hissy-fits about some half-assed national health care program?
Health care?
Really?
Christ, with all those tit's in an uproar, and knickers in knots, it's amazing the rest of us aren't drowning in milk to the sounds of your castrati choir!
And some on the right are calling Roberts worse than "Benedict Arnold."
And others are blaming this decision on his (alleged?) epilepsy and the medication he takes for it.
Stay classy, Conservatives!
anotherbozo says:
So my favorite blogger and political guru is a professor/stand-up comic who loves rats. Okay. There are stranger realities.
I just heard former Comptroller General David Walker on MSNBC's Morning Joe repeat the shibboleth that the U.S. government has gotten "too big." Without, of course, being asked just how that happened, what parts of government he means, etc, whether we might perhaps rethink our status as the world's most expensively armed bully.
Monday mornings are the worst, when there are no Jon Stewart or Colbert programs to watch from the previous evening. And now I've been forsaken for a rodent named Buddy.
Ellie says:
Best wishes from me and my ratties to you and yours. And may they get the very best healthcare available.
tybee says:
i didn't think you were allowed to have republicans for a pet.
Dave says:
He's got a rat for a pet, not a turd.
E* says:
I am totally and utterly distracted from the affairs of my country by that adorable creature. Best wishes for his return to health!
c u n d gulag says:
Geez, you folks are SOOO naive here.
That's not his real pet!
That's a cute-pet-link that came with his new wallet.
PS: I know I'm showing my age with this one, 'cause only the old folks will remember the cute babe photo that came in every male wallet back in the day, so some loser guys could claim that was their girlfriend.
"Funny, Jim, your new girlfriend must be the twin of the girl in Frank's wallet."
Isua says:
Best wishes to your rattie, from a lurker and her guinea pigs! That is a good little rodent there.
Southern Beale says:
IS THAT A RAT? OMFG KILL IT KILL IT STOMP STOMP STOMP
Southern Beale says:
Kidding by the way. Just sayin', that animal wouldn't last long at our house. 7 cats and 3 dogs. We're basically rodent-free.
I'm trying to get over laughing at the Republican commenter on my Sunday thread who claims Democrats won't welcome any GOP healthcare ideas when, y'know, the entire Affordable Care Act was their idea. When I pointed that out he said, "yeah but the Dems only came on board after single payer was nixed." I'm like, dude, look up the word "compromise" in a dictionary, 'm'kay? Then he's like, "well I give the Republicans a pass on their 180 on this healthcare thing because back when Bush Sr. was president he raised taxes in exchange for a Dem promise to cut spending and the Dems didn't do it, so how can we ever trust Dems to compromise again?"
And hell, I don't even know if that's true or not but what the fuck does it even matter? So what? What does Dems reneging on a promise in the 90s have to do with Republicans calling their own healthcare plan "the end of America as we know it — no exaggeration!"
It's almost funny watching them flail about here. Now they're all on board with the "largest tax increase in American history" thing, which is also a lie but they all get the memo because every single one of them is repeating it.
It's just really un-fucking-believable. They have no principles, and no shame.
JohnR says:
"Is that the picture that came with the frame?" [/guybrush]
Eh, I don't think you need to worry much about old John. Sure, the Great Unwashed are calling for his head right now, but since (a) he doesn't give a rat's ass (apologies to Buddy and co.) about the Lesser People, (b) he can't hear them over the sound of how awesome his money is, and (c) his ego is almost certainly quite healthy enough to stand up to some unimportant shrieking from the Usual Shrieking Fools, I doubt that he'll be much affected by this. If all the crabs on Gilligan's Island started waving their claws menacingly at Thruston Howell III, I suspect his reaction would be much like Roberts' to all this. Anyway, everything will be back to normal after the next decision, when he rips the testicles off the Liberal side just to show that he can. The Beck wing of the GOP has the same sort of memory system as lemurs – no long-term memory except unthinking instinct, and no short-term memory to speak of.
Tim H. says:
Good luck with the critter, I think I'll worry more about it than some people of my acquaintence.
CaptBackslap says:
"There's your father at a graduation…and here he's helping a little boy fly a kite…and at another graduation…"
Sarah says:
Sarah Palin had it on her Facebook page. One of the trolls here put it in his comment on the Thursday thread last week. And then some of them like to yap about how liberals don't think for themselves.
Elle says:
Apropos of today's Groupon offer, lang may Buddy's lum reek.
LazyMonkey says:
Get well soon, little one.
Xynzee says:
Hope ratso is feeling better.