H/C Utah Sabotaging Health Care Reform

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Sunday July 26, 2009 · 2:34 PM PDT

2009/07/26 · 14:34

Today in Sunday's Washington Post, right wing columnist Kathleen Parker lamented that Utah's governor Jon Huntsman wasn't going to be able to sabotage the Democrat's attempt at health care reform if he was sent to China as the ambassador.

Parker gushes over what Huntsman has "left behind," ignoring the fact that she's worshipping a plan that hasn't actually been implemented yet, so there is no way to judge it, and declares the Democratic version DOA.

After sorting thru 2 pages of her troweling on the caulk, I finally found the 2 relevant paragraphs- GIVE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES MORE MONEY!

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Sunday July 12, 2009 · 4:34 PM PDT

2009/07/12 · 16:34

There are priorities during the summer, and then there are priorities. With Washington DC's August shutdown for vacation just over 2 weeks away, suddenly Congress realizes that .... they can't come up with anything that they want to admit to have been working on during the preceding half year they've had to screw around on it!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's overhaul of the nation's health systems is unlikely to be completed by the White House's August deadline, lawmakers said Sunday as Congress turns its attention to other priorities.

And Silent Sebelius finally speaks (over the flip):

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Thursday May 21, 2009 · 12:00 AM PDT

2009/05/21 · 00:00

May 20, 2009. Our brilliant Congressman Tom McClintock (R, Elk Grove Automall) voted today to start forest fires in National Parks and help poachers, too, giving a thumbs up to Amendment Section 512, Protecting Americans from Violent Crime, from HR 627, Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009. This version, which intends to let people now carry LOADED GUNS into the National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, was written by the Senate. Instead of having the House version reconcile it and strike it out, which could have been done easily by a Democratic majority, they left it in. Roll call of the vote: http://www.govtrack.us/...

You just knew there had to be an ulterior motive for McClintock to pretend to care about predatory lending.

Oh no, not this crap again!

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Monday May 18, 2009 · 11:37 PM PDT

2009/05/18 · 23:37

I just made up a new acronym, H/C. It stands for Health Care, and I thought it would help with some ease of topic recognition around here. While this isn't one of my best topics, and I don't have a pretty picture, unless you want one of the stuffed duck again, I thought, really, how could I screw it up any further than Congress is doing so far ?

According to Bloomberg.com,Senator Max Baucus' (D, MT) and Senator Grassley's (R, IA) committee working on health care "reform," is considering a wide range of "options" on how to finance the ~~turkey~~ reformed insurance system by taxing things, so that the thing could, in theory, be self financing.

I have to hand it to Baucus' & Grassley's genius at this, they've got enough proposals in there already to offend everybody. If the objective was to create sound bytes to make people feel queasy at the idea of government providing more health insurance, it's got the pasta pot boiling.

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Monday May 11, 2009 · 1:15 AM PDT

2009/05/11 · 01:15

Newly elected Republican Representative Tom McClintock will be in Quincy, CA tomorrow morning, May 11, 10:30 am in Plumas County (that's nearly 4 hours north of Sacramento) to appear at a forum at the fairgrounds, in front of a small town whose workers have just been devastated by Sierra Pacific Industries sawmill closing, forcing layoffs. The small log mill is closing. Indications from McClintock's advance PR show he will blame environmentalists, the spotted owl, and the Endangered species act, and ignore the housing building meltdown which has cut the demand for lumber.

According to one of McClintock's bloggers, who is now using a pen name,"Kool Aid Man," McClintock is now "taking on the Montgomery/Charlie Brown Power Base." Quincy and Plumas county picked Brown over McClintock. Elections, to the remaining hard- core Republican base, are all about payback.

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Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 7:01 PM PDT

2009/04/01 · 19:01

April 1, 2009, Lincoln, CA.
In a proclamation today that shocked Republicans, but not the Democrats, who were busy admiring Michele's biceps on the red carpet of Buckingham Palace as she and That One arrived at a working dinner with The Queen of England,Congressman Thomas McClintock, R, Elk Grove Automall named the yet uncompleted Lincoln Highway 65 Bypass after himself.

The Lincoln Lump, as it appeared last summer. Future on ramp of the ~~Lincoln~~ McClintock Memorial Bypass (photo by diary author)

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Tuesday February 24, 2009 · 1:16 PM PST

2009/02/24 · 13:16

"He (Senator Burris) did not give a full disclosure of everything that occurred" Durbin said a few moments ago, live on MSNBC.

The Senate Ethics committee is doing an investigation, as is the state of Illinois's attorney general, according to Durbin, the senior Democratic Senator from Illinois.

When questioned what happens in the interim twilight zone of Burris's status of still there but not so wanted anymore as a senator,
"Burris is still going to work hard as the senator of Illinois," Durbin said, but "he's been limited in his travel because of the story, and I hope we get to the truth."

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Senator Burris will resign by the weekend

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Senator Burris will resign by the weekend

Yes

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22 votes

No way. The circus of Illinois politics must go on

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Not until there's more disclosures of what the bribe was

12 votes

Pie, mmmmmm

4 votes

Liveblog: on TV NOW, Listen to Obama after Geithner,History

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 8:20 AM PST

2009/02/10 · 08:20

This is important, you want to hear this, my connection is slow, I need help liveblogging.

He (Treasury Secretary Geithner) will need our support to fight against the Republican spin.

edit updateThere have been requests for liveblogging of President Obama in Ft Myers Florida with Gov Charlie Crist, which will start very soon, so go ahead and start commenting on that as it starts.

President Obama liveblogging comments start at 10:10 am.

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 3:59 PM PST

2009/01/28 · 15:59

Here is the list of the Democrats who voted against HR #1, the Stimulus package, which just passed the vote in the House by 244 yeas to 188 noes.

First let me throw in the one local Reepie I'll be tracking this year, Tom McClintock, R, CArpetbagger 04, who voted against it. Well, of course he voted against it, he's going to be our poster child for the neocon anachronisms. Ex Rep. John Doolittle, his Abramoff- disgraced predecessor, was quoted in the Auburn Journal 2 days ago (link here: http://auburnjournal.com/... ) as saying the district really ought to try to get some of that stimulus money..... as he came out of hiding from Virginia to take an award from the local Placer County Stupidvisors- way to go, McClintock !

Here's your voting roll call list, find your Dimwitted Dems on it:
http://clerk.house.gov/...

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Wednesday December 03, 2008 · 4:46 PM PST

2008/12/03 · 16:46

Today, Dec 3, just a day short of a month after the vote, Charlie Brown, the Democratic candidate for the 4 th Congressional district in northern CA, has conceded the 2008 election to Republican carpetbagger Tom McClintock from Thousand Oaks (his legal residence). McClintock will be taking over the seat currently held by the scandal- encrusted John Doolittle, who is "retiring" because of his involvement in the Abramoff scandal investigation.

from the email notice:

"We've come up less than one half of one percent --- just under 1800 votes --- short of victory. So a short time ago, I called Senator Tom McClintock to congratualate him on a hard fought victory, and to wish him well in Congress. "

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 11:57 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 23:57

McClintock finally released his endorsement list, yet amongst all the other detritus, it is missing the Official Annointment of his would be predecessor, Republican John Doolittle (R, Chevron, Not Yet Indicted)

Back- door Travelin' Tom McClintock would like to keep that relationship as unknown as possible. If John Doolittle has shown up in our district this fall campaign season, no one has managed to capture evidence of it. Yet.

That doesn't mean that McClintock doesn't want help from Doolittle, it just means he doesn't want anyone to know about it.

This extends to the remaining Doolittle protegees, such as Sierra College trustee Aaron Klein, running for re election, who recently used a lawyer to shut down an email service provider which was emailing a message by a political committee named "Save Sierra College," opposing Klein to potential voters. http://www.savesierracollege.com/... Klein's attorney claimed it illegal spam. The SacBee claimed it "pure political speech protected by the first Amendment" on Oct 29th, and said voters shouldn't be fooled "again. "

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 09:00

Today's Friday the 31st of October, and it's raining here in the foothills and the mountains of the northern CA Sierra. This means that the homeless have to now start enduring 6 or more months of cold wet rain or snow.

Charlie Brown, who said he'd give 5% of each campaign donation this cycle in his Promises Kept Veterans Charity Challenge to various organizations that have people depending on them for a hand UP and not a handout, will be making a donation in 2 hours to the Hospitality House of Grass Valley. Hospitality House opened in 2005 and is an interfaith organization which shelters the homeless during the winter at rotating locations.
http://www.hospitalityhouseshelter.o...

The ceremony will be at the Gathering Inn in old downtown Roseville, at 11 am at 201 Berkeley street.

As a Vietnam era Veteran, Charlie Brown is acutely aware that veterans make up a high percentage of the homeless population of this nation. Even if he loses the election, Charlie Brown would go on being an advocate for veterans and other people who are struggling for survival in hard times, because that is who he is.

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