If you join in you are automatically signed up as an organ donor. No choices to make.

They have stopped treating obese and smokers. If you are overweight they no longer give care to those who are either overweight or smoke. If you do bad things to yourself, you are therefore both responsible and fuc**d.

Are looking at not giving you care if you are speeding and have a wreck. If you get hurt they can tell you were speeding, you just lay and die.

At least a universal system that I think finally fits the Fascist Left.

Control of all.

Remember that when you’re living on Social Security and Medicare.

Dumbass.

Forty-seven years ago, my grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower bid farewell to a nation he had served for more than five decades. In his televised address, Ike famously coined the term “military-industrial complex,” and he offered advice that is still relevant today. “As we peer into society’s future,” he said, we “must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”

Today we are engaged in a debate about these very issues. Deep in America’s heart, I believe, is the nagging fear that our best years as a nation may be over. We are disliked overseas and feel insecure at home. We watch as our federal budget hemorrhages red ink and our civil liberties are eroded. Crises in energy, health care and education threaten our way of life and our ability to compete internationally. There are also the issues of a costly, unpopular war; a long-neglected infrastructure; and an aging and increasingly needy population.

I am not alone in worrying that my generation will fail to do what my grandfather’s did so well: Leave America a better, stronger place than the one it found.

Given the magnitude of these issues and the cost of addressing them, our next president must be able to bring about a sense of national unity and change. As we no longer have the financial resources to address all these problems comprehensively and simultaneously, setting priorities will be essential. With hard work, much can be done.

The biggest barrier to rolling up our sleeves and preparing for a better future is our own apathy, fear or immobility. We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists. I am convinced that Barack Obama is the one presidential candidate today who can encourage ordinary Americans to stand straight again; he is a man who can salve our national wounds and both inspire and pursue genuine bipartisan cooperation. Just as important, Obama can assure the world and Americans that this great nation’s impulses are still free, open, fair and broad-minded.

(More at link)

Some bills it is in the public good to pass and not take a stand, but other would be worth the outcry to hold up and hostage for the public good. We are going to end up having the Federal government being allowed to eavesdrop and search without a warrant and at will in violation of the Constitution. Why because the majority party will not take a stand for the American people! When neither party is protecting the Constitution who will?

But they’ve put the Republicans who had forgotten to pretend to do their jobs on notice. Haven’t you noticed the increased attention? The mailers, the calls announcing the town-hall phone meetings, the letters to the editor have all increased. Brownback has remained asleep at the wheel, but both Roberts and Tiahrt have suddenly remembered there is a constituency, elections are held…

The new slim Democratic majority in the House has slowed bushco down. There was NO accountability in the first six years of his administration!

The elections this fall will firm up the majority and there won’t be the total roadblock idiot in the White House any longer. That will be the real test! If they don’t shape up their terms of office should be short-lived! Keep them accountable to WE THE PEOPLE and UNelect more quickly so they understand who the boss is.

I think that the founding fathers would have not approved of this today, they realized the value of discord when it is in the name of the common good. When the goal of that discord would be to farther the frame work of this nation. But today we tear away the frame work to have a weapon to beat the opponent over the head and to kill the other side. The fight maybe the same but the goals have changed for the worst.

1. Increasing the minimum wage by over 40% when the last increase goes into effect in July 2009 ($5.15 to $7.25). Any increase at all was stonewalled for over 10 years by the Republicans’ control of Congress.

2. Implementation of all of the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission (what possible justification was there NOT to do so).

3. Increasing Pell grant funding for college tuition loans, and reducing the interest rate for repayment.

4. Raising mandatory minimun fuel efficiency standards for autos. Isn’t it a no brainer that Detroit has possessed this ability for years, and that the easiest way to reduce our dependence on foreign oil is to BURN LESS OF IT?

4. Securing the biggest overhaul of ethics and lobbying rules since Watergate. Sen. Obama had a great deal of responsibility for accomplishing these changes.

5. More money for math and science teachers who earn more credentials in their field.

6. Doubling of money for basic scientific research.

7. Reclamation projects for hurricane-devasted Gulf Coast.

Read the Washington Post National Weekly Edition for more information, 12-24-07 through 1-6-08 edition.

In order to be even more successful, we need more Democrats in Congress in order to accomplish the limitation of the President’s power to wage war and spend, to increase coverage for families seeking health insurance for children, or to pass a more targeted and efficient economic stimulation bill. Reid and Pelosi, Dennis Moore and Nancy Boyda cannot be faulted for voting the right way, but not having enough similarly commited colleagues in Congress to defeat Senate filibusters by Republican dinosaurs like Brownback and Roberts, et al.