Today:
“I mean, the easiest thing for me to do on the health care debate would have been to tell people that, ‘What you’re going to get is guaranteed health insurance, lower your costs, all the insurance reforms, we’re going to lower the cost of Medicare and Medicaid, and it won’t cost anybody anything.’ That’s great [...]

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Well, it’s Friday on the East Coast already. (And in Southeast Asia, for that matter. Not that that matters.)
Erick points out that for the purposes of the “healthcare” bill, a vote for cloture must be considered a vote for the bill itself. We must call our Senators today, since the vote is on Saturday, and [...]

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I’ve been meaning to link this for a while: the boys at Hillbuzz have been running experiments on:
- how to save money on food in general, and how this can be done by single people, by families, by groups that live together (as several of our favorite Chicagoans do, apparently);
- how one generic generic shopping [...]

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And so I shall. But I can’t get through too much of the usual lionizing without wanting to throw up.
“The last of them,” my husband announces.
“Ted?”
“Yes.”
“The end of an era.”
“He was awful, just awful, about Viet Nam.”
“Worse than Kerry and Winter Soldier?”
“Much, much worse.”
“I can’t connect him with his brothers, you know. [...]

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Well, Barry, let me count the ways. Better yet, Pat will count the ways.
President Barry has taken to the pages of The New York Times to explain why preserving Pharma company profits and the law profession’s Medical Malpractice Lottery will somehow result in lower costs and improved care for most Americans—once we sign on to [...]

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Dear Dr. Atilla:
I’m having chest pains from having my heart broken years ago by an old flame and may need a pacemaker. Would you install one, or would you prescribe a pain pill? Or should I just end my life for the betterment of society?
—A Heartbroken Michigander
Dear Michigander:
First of all, since you’re from the Upper [...]

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Hey! An embeddable from Crowder and the folks at PJTV! Featuring Malkin and Coulter.

Allahawful:
[I]s this really necessary? What right-wing blog reader worth his salt hasn’t already flagged himself silly?
The bloggers are real flaggers, though—as a group. I have to admit that I’ve only flagged myself a time or two. Now that I reconsider, I [...]

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Story here, with the bonus of my favorite AC/DC song. Analysis here:
Assume that the deal itself is legal. (I don’t know if it is.) Assume that Obama sought a deal of some kind, and he’s permitted to do so, and this is the “best deal for the American people” he could get.
Let’s assume that.
But let’s [...]

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for me, but not for thee.

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I didn’t see anything there about a chill wind that’s about to give the First Amendment a bad case of pneumonia. Not a single thing.
But, you know: that was then. This is now.

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. . . wherein Dave discusses the fact that constituents are out of touch with their representatives, blesses us with some automotive eye candy, and publishes a helpful field guide to Astroturf versus grass-roots protesters.

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Right here.
h/t: Alas and aleck, at Hot Air.

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I need to report myself to the White House for my own “fishy” talk about Obama’s healthcare reform proposals.
It’s the thing to do: flag@whitehouse.gov. We must all report ourselves. Let’s see how much email the White House can handle

UPDATE: Spadilio, for the video. Also, he and his gang seem to be having fun with [...]

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is brought to you by Mary Shelley.

. . . and Hot Air, of course, where AllahP remarks:
The tone’s starkly different but this actually has something in common with that DNC abortion from this morning: Both ads are designed to introduce the buzzwords they want to dominate the conversation on health care this month. Incredibly, with [...]

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. . . all over my body.”
UPDATE: “No, no, Mr. President! I was talking to my husband; I’m still in mourning over Sandra’s divorce, but it’s so hot today . . . I did not want you to ’single-payer’ me right up the back chute!”

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the stats on ABC contributions to the Obama campaign vs. to McCain’s. Hm.

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. . . duplicity.

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the one people are always trying to get access to:
According to Barack Obama, our healthcare is worse than other nations and more expensive.
“We are spending over $2 trillion a year on health care - almost 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation,” Obama is expected to say, according to an advance [...]

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Hm. How funny. Nothing about the Letterman/CBS scandal at the company’s corporate site, or on its blog, either. But HillBuzz has a thing or two to say about Johnson & Johnson.
Here are the Johnson & Johnson product lines:
Acuvue • Actifed • Ambi • Aveeno • Band-Aid • Benadryl • Bengay • Benylin • Caladryl [...]

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to actually read the Health Care Bill, since no one who draws a government paycheck is likely to.
Teacher Pat gives us our assignment:
Your Summer Reading: Obamacare
Via Hot Air, here is the Obamacare plan, entitled Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans.
Remember when we had to Read the Stimulus because we knew Congress wouldn’t? Welcome to [...]

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