Thursday - March 25, 2010

WTF

The follow-up health care bill being considered by the Senate will have to return to the House for final congressional approval, after the Senate parliamentarian determined that two Republican challenges will succeed in stripping out language in the package.

The follow-up health care bill being considered by the Senate will have to return to the House for final congressional approval, after the Senate parliamentarian determined that two Republican challenges will succeed in stripping out language in the package.

Altering the bill in any way means it has to return to the House side, which first approved the package of changes Sunday, since both chambers must pass identical versions.

Democrats don’t appear worried. Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, said the House could easily approve the expected changes. The Senate is expected to complete work on the bill Thursday afternoon, and the House could take it up again the same day—or push it off until Friday.

The package of changes, which is being considered under “reconciliation” rules allowing the Senate to approve it with just 51 votes, is the final piece of the legislative puzzle to the health care reform package signed into law Tuesday. Health care reform is officially enacted, but House Democrats wanted the package of fixes to change the way it’s financed and address other concerns.

The glitches have to do with Pell grants for low-income students.

For starters, student loans have no business whatsoever being in this bill. Flog the sumnabitch who put it in there.

Next, the federal government has no business at all taking over the student loan business. And if they do, I’ll tell what what the REAL outcome will be: “reparations”. That’s right white boy, no college loans for you. Hey you southern redneck, you’re not wanted at Yale. Because when the feds control the money, they control who gets an edumacation. And you damn well better believe that all the members of the permanent victim class are at the head of the line. ALWAYS.

Lastly, is there any hope at all that this fiasco can be defeated the second time through, now that the elites in DC have seen how many death threats, protests, and near riots their actions have caused? I’m beginning to get the feeling they’re just fucking with us. That this piece of unconstitutional tripe is some form of torture to keep us wound up tight, blood pressure peaking, RCOB ... while they sneak some other dirty deal through while nobody is watching.

Personally, I’d prefer waterboarding. Like a high powered neti pot, I bet that cleans your sinuses out but good, and we’re right at the beginning of allergy season.

This thing is like some kind of nightmare merry-go-round that never ends. Well, it’s more like a bullshit centrifuge, hip deep and high speed, and none of us can get off the ride.

Several thousand pages for the first bill, and the ink isn’t even dry yet, and now there’s a follow up bill. Nobody knows what’s in the first one, God himself has to guess at the contents of the second. And is even the new one the “doctor fix” bill we’ve heard about? I don’t think so; I haven’t heard it called by that name. So there’s a Part Three coming our way next. Or not. Who knows? This is insanity.

Posted by Drew458     on 03/25/2010 at 03:00 PM   
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