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    The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing

    Listen To People Read You Legislation

    Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.

    In Which Dan Baum Annoys Every Jew He Knows

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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/23/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    Apparently the Republicans want to kill more trees as well as people.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/23/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Whoops! Missed the comment by simplicissimus, which contained the same joke. Apologies.
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    11/22/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    Because sweeping reform of one of America's largest industries should fit on the back of an envelope.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/23/09

    @rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny:
    It'd still be too much for a teabagger to read.
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/22/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    I liked this piece very much.

    Glad you're now a regular on the Gawker night shift, Adrian!
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    Image of Adrian Chen Adrian Chen
    11/23/09

    @MisterHippity: Thanks! A pleasure sharing a time slot with you, occasionally.
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    Image of lionboy lionboy
    11/22/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    White guys always 'enhance' their packages.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/22/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    They can read?
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    Image of TheClap TheClap
    11/22/09

    In reply to The Senate Health Care Bill and the Stupid Politics of Printing
    That letter is a joke right? There arent seriously going to write the bill on rice to combat the bullshit talk about how large a bill is.

    What is their point in even raising the argument about the size of the bill? Look guys, theyve thought of stuff and written it down! Maybe they've trying to create a new system which requires a lot of groundwork to be laid! How dare they!
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    Image of Adrian Chen Adrian Chen
    11/22/09

    @TheClap: Yes, it was a joke!
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    11/22/09

    @Adrian Chen: Of course it was a joke. The corn lobby would *never* allow congress to use rice!
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/22/09

    @Adrian Chen: You're pitching way over people's heads tonight. Might want to deploy the blinking "COMEDY" .gif to help them make it through the piece without all this bewilderment.
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    11/23/09

    @Adrian Chen: A part of me really wanted them to write the bill on rice and carry it around in baggies. :(
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    Image of Dot Dot
    11/18/09

    In reply to Listen To People Read You Legislation
    What is hell?
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    Image of cocodevaux cocodevaux
    11/18/09

    In reply to Listen To People Read You Legislation
    i'm second hand famous. that dude was reading legislation outside my apartment door!

    my pumpkins just got educated, yo.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    you don't have to track down the source of their words--just follow the money trail: [maplight.org] #healthcare
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    Outraged: Pitchfork waving mad.

    Surprised: Not in the least. #healthcare
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    Lobbyists also write the bills that become the laws. So how do we go about buying some for ourselves, instead of letting them all be bought by those who wish to hurt us?
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    11/16/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I used to say that if I won the lotto I'd buy Congress for a month. I was joking when I said it. sigh #healthcare
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/16/09

    @Vulcan Has No Moon: Pick a good number and pick a good month #healthcare
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    Here's what shows the legs this story will have even among us elites: as of this writing, 700 views for this story, over 4300 for the gossip round up. Again, kudos to Foster for serving up something nourishing along with the dessert. #healthcare
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/15/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Yeah. The nice thing is, we could shoot free-throws all day with Lady Gaga's Penis while we wish hemorrhoids on Michael Lohan's prostrate, and get King Shit Sized traffic. But that's not the point. I think. #healthcare
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: Agreed. And hey, how about that Times piece on the head of Sullivan and Cromwell that bizarrely spends more space on telling us what a nice, unassuming, and short guy he is than it does telling us details of the way he gamed the bailout and regulatory system for his client moneychangers? Apparently if you are short and nice in your private life, it makes up for being big and evil in business. #healthcare
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/15/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: I knew a Sullivan and Cromwell guy. One of my first jobs in New York was helping him set up his apartment on Wall St.

    He had lots of Asian Porn. He was a creep. #healthcare
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: An apartment on Wall Street? Hotcha! No wonder he had the Asian porn. It was the only way he could socialize after business hours. By the way, I can remember when, according to common knowledge, a Jew couldn't get near the doors of S & C, which firm did business with Nazi Germany. Now, per the Times, it's run by one of our own. Tempus Jewit. #healthcare
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    It's not really shocking if you're aware, as someone else pointed out, that lobbyists already write most legislation. It's just a little more blatant, a little more shameless, a little more depressing. Fuckers. At least try to pretend like you give a crap about your constituency. #healthcare
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    Image of Buttafooco Buttafooco
    11/15/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Amen. There used to be a time when you could shame some of them into admitting their ties when it came to their voting records as it related to their lobbying pals. No longer is that the case. What's even more sad however, is how gullible so many of their constituents seem to be when it comes to their forked tongues. They so often seem to lick it all up based purely on political affiliation. #healthcare
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/15/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: We should be buying our own reps, you know? #healthcare
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    So basically Big Pharma's relationship to Congress is a lot like the one I had with my favorite puppet as a kid. I would slip my hand up its ass and it would say whatever I wanted it to.
    It was an all-too-snug fit.

    Congress in this instance re-affirms the old adage: a cheap whore is never out of work.

    When the history of the fall of this country is written, the cause of death will read "Cancer by Multi-national Corporations."

    This is the greatest, most depressing, post I have read here, and that's going quite a ways.

    Job too-well-done, Foster. #healthcare
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/15/09

    In reply to Impressively Evil: Health Care Lobbyists Busted Writing Speeches For Congress. Literally.
    Sounds very S.S.D.D. (Same shit, different day.) on the hill or as I like to call it...lazy fucking politicians legislating from within a coma.

    Also, Foster, props on the Tribe reference in the lede. #healthcare
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    11/15/09

    @Spirit Fingers: i don't doubt it, look at how they act. #healthcare
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/15/09

    @Spirit Fingers: NICE. I was waiting to give someone a star on that. So the next guy in line wins. #healthcare
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    11/15/09

    @johnny_carsick: Johnny_Carsick, it's your lucky day. #healthcare
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    Image of johnny_carsick johnny_carsick
    11/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: mad props, foster. everyone wins. #healthcare
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/15/09

    @johnny_carsick: Congrats! Great way to get starred.

    @Foster Kamer: One of the best, ever. No doubt. #healthcare
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