Political Football

The Muscatine Town Hall was today and reports from the Louisa County Town Hall were the same as ours – it was “tame”. When I arrived at the Muscatine venue 90 minutes early I was pleased the auditorium was open, was not looking forward to standing in line.

For the first 30 minutes even as a few friends trickled in we were seriously outnumbered by opposition support. By the end of the session it sounded like it was fairly even but my sense was we were outnumbered about 60%-40%, and there were less than 200 people there.

The facts have become obscured with the passion and vitriol from each side over the last months, and I worry that our “tame” Town Halls give this Representative the opportunity to tell his leader Ms. Pelosi, that he can vote with her without concern of blow back.

With all due respect to my Democrat friends, where there is misinformation on both sides of the Health Care topic, our President takes the cake on hypocrisy.

No there is nothing formally labeled as Death anything in HR3200. But let’s look at this:

I was not surprised to learn that the VA panel of experts that sought to update “Your Life, Your Choices” between 2007-2008 did not include any representatives of faith groups or disability rights advocates. And as you might guess, only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society (now euphemistically known as “Compassion and Choices”).

to read more go here.

This VA “book” was first authored in the late 1990, and tabled during the Bush years. For this to be dusted off in the first 6 months of this administration speaks to focus. Read Section 1233 of HR 3200 and you tell me if this could eventually mutate into something similar to what some of my veteran friends call “The Death Book”.

Let’s look for more
here’s CNN on Lobbyists

here is another good article – read the posts too

I will try to post one of the President’s latest speeches and point out the misinformation there – his talks are filled with certainty about things that are simply not true.

Here is what should be done – this, does not turn 1/6 of our national economy over to the people who have made a shambles of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the SEC…

1st: Create a temporary safety net re: catastrophic for uninsured.
2nd: Require Coverage for pre-existing conditions.
3rd: Redo State Insurance Commissions mandates on require specific coverage – change to a menu option/price
4th: Make insurance portable from job to job & state to state
5th: Watch the free market work
6th: offer a tax deduction for anyone who wants insurance that isn’t insured – now they can shop around and prices will be lower because of competition.

None of this requires the government to take over anything.

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