Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I am getting really worried, because if 222 Democrats voted for this unconstitutional, very-unpopular maneuver, doesn’t that mean that all 222 will also vote for the bill itself? Why vote for this if you’re not going to vote for that?
Technically Speaking: Drew notes that this wasn’t a vote on the Slaughter House Rule itself, but on a GOP motion to compel the House to not employ the Slaughter House Rule.
The Slaughter Rule is not yet actually implemented. But the motion to halt it was rejected.
Yes there are lots of possibilities open for phony posturing. But this was still an important vote because it’s the first hard signal about how many in the House are willing to use deem-and-pass. To actually fasten their names to it. So I’m worried along with Ace.
This was not a costless maneuver for them by any means. In fact, they just handed the Republicans the perfect campaign theme for 2010, while they have yet to realize any benefits from doing so.
As I said before, Mark Steyn nailed it. Completely. House and Senate seats are important to them…but delivering the “legislation” is more important than that, if & when the two are in conflict. It isn’t quite so much the legislation as the public mindset that comes with it. The prevailing way of looking at life.
The old “Haven’t Got the Luxury of Loving Freedom” attitude. Opportunity-over-security would be wonderful and titillating if I could afford to prioritize things that way, but I just cannot afford it. Mediocrity for me, as long as it’s delivered on demand, on time.
The spirit that made nothing great.
They want to get that promulgated and propagated. This is more important than anything. This is their mother’s-milk. They know, if they lose seats getting this accomplished, it’ll be a trivial matter to get those seats back again. Conservative spirit is about as useful as a pot without a bottom, in a nation of the helpless. So their eye is on the #1 job.
They are despair.
Update: Something from yesterday. To help cheer you up. Because it’s refreshing hearing a grown-up talk like a grown-up in these worrisome, worrisome times.
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Rush has talked about little else on his radio show over the past couple of days. In addition to reminding us what a monstrosity the bill itself would be (although he stresses that technically, there IS no bill), he also has been leaning hard on people to keep calling the Capitol Switchboard:
877-762-8762 and 202-224-3121. Those are the numbers you need to know.
He stressed that that this fight isn’t over yet, not by a long shot. Even if it does pass the House, he said yesterday that that “is when the real fun begins.” Lawsuits will keep this thing tied up for years and the next Congress job #1 will be repealing or de-funding it.
So I am not “worried.” I’m still at the angry stage, still at the “Let’s get this f—ing thing stopped” stage. Call those numbers, Morgan readers, and burn up the phone lines.
- cylarz | 03/19/2010 @ 10:33Also 202-225-3121. Call ’em and ask for your congressman. Tell em HELL NO.
- cylarz | 03/19/2010 @ 10:36Here’s a website where you can get more information:
http://www.nrcc.org/CodeRed/main.php
- cylarz | 03/19/2010 @ 10:44If all else fails, this is what must happen. A conservative President in ’12, and a Senate with AT LEAST 60 Republicans to break filibuster and repeal the bill before it is practiced. It would not hurt to have a Health Care Contact with America ready, entirely of free market solutions.
- jamzw | 03/20/2010 @ 00:19