219!!

I'm sure I'll have more to say at some point about health care reform, but for now, there's just......jubilation. And relief, that the Dems managed to get it together long enough to pass this. Pride, that the U.S. will no longer be the only developed country that doesn't ensure health care for all its citizens, not just the wealthy. Tears, for Jen and Kristine and all the others who died while trying to get medical treatments that their insurance companies denied. Hope, that that'll be less likely to happen in the future.



And my usual two words for the Republicans: suck it.

Doubling down on crazy

I almost can’t watch the health care reform stuff on tv anymore, because it’s too infuriating, pretty much every part of it. But I got sucked into watching Rachel Maddow last night, and this was what she started out with:

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This video, quite frankly, leaves me a bit speechless. Praying against health care reform?

“Jesus says, if they’re going to die, let them do it already and decrease the surplus population! No wait, that was Ebeneezer Scrooge. Whatever. Pray with me to the Lord to save us from the blasphemers, desirous of health care for the people!”

Oooookay then.