health care bill
Who says a Christmas tree is incapable of being kosher? The Jerusalem Rabbinate, that’s who. [Matt Yglesias] Mike Enzi gives the Senate health care bill a big fat F because when he asks for 3,000 pages double-spaced in 12 point Times New Roman, he is not looking for 2,074 pages in Helvetica. That’s an incomplete [...]
Meet Harry Reid & the Senate’s Health Care Bill: $849 billion, 2,074 pages, no insurance for abortions or illegal immigrants, other characteristics, etc. [CNN] Despite really maxing out every copy editor’s patience with the word “contentious,” Hamid Karzai was sworn-in for another five-year term as President of Afghanistan. [New York Times] Eric Holder took questions [...]
If you were hoping to buy or rent a bunch of abortions and charge them care of whatever new health care bill ends up passing, this will not be possible! [New York Times] China is very upset with the Dalai Lama for going to some Himalayan town that is not technically a part of China [...]
Alan Grayson! Yes! Who even is this guy, and yet, ALAN GRAYSON. Watch Alan Grayson carry on for like four minutes about how much he hates Olympia Snowe and her whole stupid state. He’s like, “Maine? Hardly!” Seriously, he basically says this.
Herta Muller, the famed rather depressing Teutonic authoress, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. [New York Times] Hooray, the Senate Finance Committee has approved the most recent health care bill, which means it could be sent to the Senate floor by the end of the month! [New York Times] Pakistan would rather the U.S. [...]






