As a resident of PA, I am anxious to send Snarlin’ Arlin packing. Specter apparently thinks PA is too blue to stomach a Republican with a hint of principle (he certainly wasn’t thinking of whats best for the country). For what its worth I have been rather disengaged during the Bush years. Can’t say how much of that applies to all PA voters but we’ll find out in 2010.

Those so called socially moderate, fiscally conservative north eastern Republicans that are our only hope as Republicans of ever winning elections again?

Ohh…and they’re the ringmasters of the circus that is the RMSP….but I’ve already said that a thousand times haven’t I?

Where are all those squishes that were so busy pounding and pummeling us for excluding the supposed fiscal conservative social moderates before the elections and whining about circular firing squads now? Ohh and best of all…where are all those spouting off that we need these people to stop the Democrats from getting to 60? As if having these guys on our side meant anything anyway!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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Well it’s forty y’know
With a little bit of pluck
But for three traitor schmuck
So we’re off to the recon. O!

It’s an all-too-far left
And adios right
C’mon you three dummies
Get your right vote right
Get offstage you RINO goofs, y’know…
You tick me off
You stupid jerks
Get on my nerves

Well here comes Arlen
With his hat in his hand
He’s an Obama man
And he’s off to the recon. O!

It’s an all-too-far left
And adios right
C’mon you three dummies
Get your right vote right
Get offstage you RINO goofs, y’know…
You tick me off
You stupid jerks
Get on my nerves

What’s all this I hear about the intellectual elite in the Northeast? Of course, in their defense, those are really BIG number they’re talking about. They don’t even fit on your basic TI calculator. Of course, if any of them had had any advanced math or science courses, they would have heard of exponents. So if you can’t figure it out in your head, you can still use your calculator to do the math. Unless you’re an intellectual elite from the Northeast. What other excuse do you have for not being able to understand that $838,200,000,000 is BIGGER than $819,500,000,000? It’s like this: 8.38 E11 > 8.20 E11. But hey, I’m just a red neck from Tennessee.

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I was on this site and others saying that if the Democrats got 60 votes, 59 or 58 really did not matter, They could always peel off enough rino votes to get whatever they wanted.

It’s only $780B instead of $870B? Gosh. That just totally changed my mind. A whole $90B less? Wow. I was so wrong.

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This is news to me. Has anyone heard about this?? :

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.