Byrd would have opposed Obama’s Death Panel Czar

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  July 12th at 10:30 AM  | 

Late Senator defended the institution of the U.S. Senate and thus, the Rule of Law The Framers of the Constitution understood that checks and balances by established institutions were required to provide the processes and procedures to prevent substantive tyranny. The recently-passed “guardian of the senate” understood that basic fact as well, and despite this 2000 right-wing convert’s voluminous disagreements with the late Senator Robert | Read More »

Death panels survive sans end of life counseling provisions

By: Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary)  |  August 14th at 10:11 PM  | 

Government option is a death panel The elderly town hall mobs have forced the removal end of life counseling provisions from the sight unseen Senate bill said to be similar to those passed by a House committee before the August recess: Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement Thursday that the provision had been dropped from | Read More »