ENDURANCE TESTING

Here I am still sticking in there in front of the tube watching the Repugs trying their best to scuttle the Finance Cmte version of the health reform bill constructions.

One of the sessions (ahem) was devoted to arguing over whether to convert the text to legislative language which would mean hundreds of pages of gobbledegook that delineates cross references to existing codes in the case of tax impact or other current laws already on the books..this was the most obvious example of the attempt to slow walk getting this bill out of committee.

The R's are nitpicking, hairsplitting and in general not offering improvements only delays. Some of the references they use are in error. This is better drama than a soap opera but I am not addicted to those.

At the present pace it will take months to consider the stack of amendments meant to bury this bill.


graysmoke