Given the fact that the vote was so close in the House, I will be surprised if health care reform makes it through the Senate. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.

I also had an election epiphany, too. I already believed that the Democrats would lose between 10 and 15 seats in 2010 because it’s traditionally a correction cycle. After last night, though, I think that number will be higher.

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
http://tinyurl.com/ykhk3k3

We still manufacture a lot of products here for domestic consumption and export. Just not as much as we used to. But that shouldn’t be our primary focus for creating middle class jobs. Education and training should be our focus. People will create great businesses if they have the tools and adequate support.

How do you expand the middle class with the jobs going to places like China for peanuts and limited human rights?

Can you see how that’s a better message than just complaining about taxing the rich?

Are you for ending Medicare?

This is a bad idea. Bad idea.

GOP – Pay for it through tort reform.

Do you see the word moron etched on my forehead, Sirs?

umm, that’s the point, We don’t!

….enabling Americans to reimport FDA-approved drugs made in FDA-approved labs from countries (like Canada and France) ….

Just because something is short and simple, it doesn’t mean the people who wrote it are incapable of thinking critically. What a bizarre assumption.

Your case fails. If you want to be governed by people with the intellectual depth of a comic book, that’s your problem. If you want to see how to regulate an entire industry in one big bill, start reading.