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britneyspearstears
03:22 PM

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how could one adorable little baby be so thoroughly misinformed? #healthcare
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Trai_Dep
12:04 PM

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The irony is that the least educated and resource-strained people are both the ones who'll benefit from health care reform AND the ones most crazily, vocally against it.
I hope the Jindels of the nation opt their states out of this - hopefully, over the long run, it'll result in fewer House members being allocated for their pitiful, Federal money-sucking Red states. #healthcare
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contains_hot_liquid
12:25 PM

@Trai_Dep: It's a bit of an over-generalization but: many of the least educated and resource-strained people in this country turned to the Republicans to begin with because the Democrat Party ceased to support them. Jobs left, schools consolidated, doctors became too expensive. My hope is that legislation like this will help win some voters back on issues that matter. #healthcare
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Trai_Dep
01:31 PM

@contains_hot_liquid: Good points, but I try to keep away from parties, since ideologies are a more accurate indicator. There are plenty of Dems in the pocket (or terrified) of the Conservative one. #healthcare
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triplethreat
11:01 AM

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"[A] 2,000 page bill, the contents of which most Americans seem to think include a provision that says something along the lines of 'YOU, SIR, OR MA'AM, ARE GOING TO DIE. WE ARE GOING TO KILL YOU, AND YOU ARE GOING TO ENJOY IT! AND ALSO PAY US TAXES TOO, THANKS!'"

"Most" is pretty fucking misleading. Opposition to the bill has been between 50 and 56% for months. That's a bare majority, especially when you account for error in the poll and people believing all the lies about reform that are out there.
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Baroness
01:18 AM

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Never trust a grown man with a ponytail unless it's Willie Nelson.

Even then, never follow Willie to a second location. #healthcare
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ShanghaiLil
12:21 AM

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After giving Congressional Testimony, Baby Matty was introduced to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who suggested that a light bernaise sauce might help to bring out her natural sweetness.

On the plus side, she is no longer worried about paying for her parents' and grandparents' health care. #healthcare
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Mediahohoho
11/07/09

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Arizona Republicans--from McCain and Kyl to every last sorry fuck in their house delegation--are painfully obvious about what they want, which is for insurance companies to be able to operate out of any state so that they'll all come to Arizona, which will be the state with no regulation. Insurers will be able to cancel you at the first sign of an illness and jack your premiums when the actuarial tables say you're about to get sick, and lots and lots of fun tricks besides.

They hope to do for Arizona what Tom Daschle did for South Dakota and credit cards and Joe Biden did for Delaware and the banking industry when they helped gut the usury laws in those states.

And that's the second prong of the GOP's plan for reforming health care in this country. The other, tort reform, would save about $10 billion a year. And it would put a price tag on everybody's life. Which is fine until some incompetent asshole who hasn't slept in four days puts a bad drug interaction onto a chart and your kid ends up a vegetable and you find out that you're limited to $100,000 to care for him for the rest of his life.

All he's doing with his granddaughter is gloating that she's not one of the millions of Americans who are without health insurance, or whose insurance is shitty and designed to deny care. If she were poor and uninsured and got diagnosed with cancer, I have to wonder what she'd say. I'm sure it wouldn't be the Cult for Growth pabulum he's pretending to make her spout. What an asshole.

The sad thing is, this kid is going to grow up to be just another ignorant entitled sorostitute at Arizona State.
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Brad Brown
11/07/09

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I think all the fat has gone to that little baby's head. Representative Shadegg probably mistook him for a delicious Casaba melon. #healthcare
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Claire Buoyant
11/07/09

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Prof. Bacon: We give a direct and clear message that there's something wrong with being fat.

That's because there is something wrong with being fat. Stop it with the denial already.
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onebadclam
11/07/09

@Claire Buoyant: There is a reason why you never see fat, slow moving Thompson's gazelle. #healthcare
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Trixie from Toronto
07:28 PM

@Claire Buoyant: I am totally confused how it's become verboten to say so. The rates of heart disease, strokes, even some cancers -- not to mention diabetes -- are all directly related to obesity. But we wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of the people who go to the Cheesecake Factory and eat enough for eight people in one portion. #healthcare
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Claire Buoyant
11/07/09

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Rep. Shadegg: She wants America's health insurance companies to have to compete with each other. She believes in choice.

He needs to learn the difference between health care and health insurance. Our current (competitive in his view, one supposes) insurance landscape leaves a lot of people without health care.
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sarrible
11/07/09

@Claire Buoyant: She also believes in crapping in her pants, which is what she has in common with lots of people on that socialist, government-run health-care plan, Medicare. #healthcare
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Mount_Prion
11/07/09

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Bet anything Maddy grows up into Matthew. #healthcare
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mfnher
11/07/09

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Sometimes I wonder if the 80 degree November days are worth it. Between this and reading recent Arpaio quotes ( [blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com] ), I'm thinking it might be time to get the hell out of here. #healthcare
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jasonelias
11/07/09

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Maddie says, "Granddady's creepy and loud." #healthcare
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mommy_dearest
11/07/09

In reply to Minka Kelly Will Only Satisfy Derek Jeter to a Certain Point
My ladyparts don't get credit the way they should. I'm not sure for what, but they're magical, too. #derekjeter
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TheBusinessGuy
11/07/09

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See, the baby-dummy represents the rightwing congressmen, and the Shadegg represents the ventriloquist healthcare industry. This is performance art of an order unseen since Paul Winchell died. Remember: he invented an artificial heart, so ventriloquists belong in this debate. #healthcare
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sarrible
11/07/09

In reply to Minka Kelly Will Only Satisfy Derek Jeter to a Certain Point
I'm pretty sure they make a new trophy every year. It's not like the Stanley Cup. Still, Steinbrenner might want to Febreze that shit. #derekjeter
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