Friday, July 31, 2009

Healthcare Reform Bill and premature ejaculations (Update)

It appears the health care insurance sector and the Blue Dogs are priming their Starlet, the Healthcare Reform Bill, for her début on the runway in the fall and I do not know if Pres. Obama will be disappointed. We will have to wait and see on that one.

It is my position the President does not want an encore performance when the Democrats wrote the Stimulus Package. Further, it is my opinion that bill gave him the blues with its sheer incompetence and it is a miracle some good is beginning to come out of it. This time around, the President made the brilliant decision to (here I go) divide the class into groups and let each group have an assignment as part of the overall goal of the lesson. I say the President made a brilliant decision due to the fact I do not recall a U.S. President asking Congress to write a bill in this manner. I may stand corrected.

Like most teachers, the President knows that some groups will soar in performing the assignment and some will not due to the individuals in the group. This is a given but what is usually the big surprise and indeed the big pay off is after giving the groups an outline of your expectations, outline, mind you and not specifics, the ideas they come up with are beyond your wildest expectations. The teacher, knowing each group represents a component, knows the test of his teaching skills lie in putting the components together to make one presentation. Whether a class play, musical, a basketball maneuver, a Congressional Bill or whatever, it has to work as a whole and meet the approval of all concerned. This is the time of raw politics on the part of the teacher! This is the point giving you sleepless nights and lost of appetite. Its a nightmare!

So it is, what will out little Starlet wear when she makes her debut on the runway? Will she speak? What color lights to use and what about the music? Will she walk with a companion? When the public see her, we want (forgive me) a full ejaculation! A show stopper!! We can go from there to the semi-finals and then to the finals with appropriate influences and interventions along the way. The hard work has been done. The Miss World contest will be another can of worms. (Smile)
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. As a teacher, I note the students working in the groups always become friends or at least know each other much better. (You’d be surprised the things they talk about!)

BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS
Industry Is Generous To Influential Bloc
Excerpt:
A look at career contribution patterns also shows that typical Blue Dogs receive significantly more money -- about 25 percent -- from the health-care and insurance sectors than other Democrats, putting them closer to Republicans in attracting industry support.
Most of the major corporations and trade groups in those sectors are regular contributors to the Blue Dog PAC. They include drugmakers such as Pfizer and Novartis; insurers such as WellPoint and Northwestern Mutual Life; and industry organizations such as America's Health Insurance Plans. The American Medical Association also has been one of the top contributors to individual Blue Dog members over the past 20 years.

And
"I know there were some that thought we were trying to stop health-care reform," Ross said in an interview this week for The Washington Post's "Voices of Power" series. "Nothing could be further from the truth. We simply wanted to slow the process down and ensure that we were working toward the kind of health-care reform that the American people need and want."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004267.html?hpid=topnews

(Update: I found the enclosed paragraph interesting in regards to the Democrats using Reconciliation to pass the Healthcare Reform Bill. It is my understanding going the Reconciliation route has certain limitations but I am also mindful that in adjusting language, there are more ways than one to skin a cat. As I recall, Rep. Conyers is good with language: At least, he use to be. It will take a lot of hard work but hey, we are talking about the future of our country. Who knows, we may make political history going the 51 Vote Reconciliation route with the Healthcare Reform Bill. A hundred years from now who would give a shit how you did it!)

Selib [Baucus' Chief of Staff] also warned the group that pursuing the reconciliation procedural tool might be necessary to get health care enacted this year, and he blamed Republicans for forcing the Democrats to seriously consider using the maneuver. Reconciliation would allow Democrats to pass a health care overhaul with a simple, 51-vote majority. The man said, "I did it my way."
ABC News: Dem Party Leadership May Abandon Baucus Talks UPDATED
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/31/760246/-ABC-News:-Dem-Party-Leadership-May-Abandon-Baucus-Talks-UPDATED

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