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Old 11-14-2009, 10:12 PM
Strangelet
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Re: Rumors in the age of unreason
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Originally Posted by Deckard View Post
Never mind. I'm going to take solace from the fact that a self-confessed misanthrope like Strangelet is able to be optimistic.
Ah decks. there you are. was wondering where you've been. Its kind of a brinkmanship optimism but yeah.

America here's your corporate/fascist ahem, excuse me, two party system in action

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WASHINGTON — In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
E-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that the lobbyists drafted one statement for Democrats and another for Republicans.
So its not just Max Baucus' bill, as I mentioned in the health care thread that was written by a lobbyist. Its the entire fucking legislative branch. So there's your choice, there's all your difference from which to build all your fist pounding ire at the other side of the aisle.
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