…and are in Hawaii or the western US, good heavens, get away from the beach.
Here’s the Tsunami Energy Map, from the Tsunami warning center.
That looks like a long, ugly red line running from San Diego all the way to the Aleutians…
And people think we’re crazy in the Midwest living around tornados.
UPDATE: The danger has apparently passed without major damage in Hawaii and up and down the West Coast.
Did you see this?
“Hiding spending does not reduce spending”
…it’s everywhere, but you have to see Ryan’s calm but complete takedown of the President and his policies regarding health care reform.
I’ll cop to it; after last fall’s “Nobel Peace Prize” award to a president who, as of the award deadline, had done nothing to warrant it, and has done even less since, my self-esteem-respect as an American of Norwegian anscestry has taken a bit of a beating.
But it’s on days like today – the 67th anniversary of the Norwegian raid on the Vemork heavy-water plant at Ryukan, Norway – that I get a bit of that old Norse møjø back.
You may not have heard the story – largely because most American history teachers are illiterate about history, and partly because the font of all historical knowledge for most of them, Hollywood, transformed the event into an Anglo-American triumph (the atrocious Heroes of Telemark).
Like much of what you learn about “history” from Hollywood, it’s BS.
A little scientific and historical background: nuclear reactors need something to “moderate” their fission reactions – i.e. to keep them under control. The United States program used a mixture of Cadmium and Graphite. The Germans, for reasons best explained by a physicist, chose Deuterium Oxide – aka “Heavy Water” – a compound found in infinitesimally tiny quantities in all water. All you need to do is refine it out of all the regular water.
And in all of Europe in the early 1940s, there was exactly one facility that could refine bulk lots of Deuterium Oxide in the quantities a nuclear weapons program would need; the Vemork plant near the village of Rjukan, Norway.
Vemork
The British had wanted to attack the plant ever since they learned of its significance. The British “Special Operations Executive” – a wartime organization that sat at the intersection of intelligence and special operations, much like “Special Operations Command” in the US does today, and whose American analogue, the “OSS”, became the anscestor of the CIA and US Special Forces – established an agent inside the plant (Einar Skinnarland) who smuggled out blueprints and paved the way.
Einar Skinnarland
In October of 1942, an SOE reconnaisance team with four more Norwegian operators (Jens Anton Poulsson, Arne Kjelstrup, Knut Haukelid and Claus Helberg), men who’d fled to the UK after the German invasion and undergone commando and intelligence training, were infiltrated into Norway to reconnoiter the area for a followup British commando raid. The four men were air-dropped into a remote area far from Ryukan, and skied for days through the gathering mountain winter before they could even begin their mission.
A plan came together…
…and then completely unraveled. The followup British commando raid to attack the plant failed catastrophically, with gliders and tow planes crashing in the snow and all the commandos either dying in the crashes or being caught and executed by the Gestapo, after revealing under torture the target of their raid. The Germans reinforced Vemork, in case the Brits tried again.
The four-man recon team had to not only survive a mountain winter, but do it with an alerted enemy actively searching for them, and stay on the grid and able to assist the followup mission that had to come.
Later that winter, it fell to them and six more Norwegian commandos to finish the job.
The six commandos – Joachim Holmboe Rønneberg, Knut Haukelid, Fredrik Kayser, Kasper Idland, Hans Storhaug and Birger Strømsheim – dropped into Norway, linked up with Poulsson, Kjelstrup, Haugland and Helberg, and carried out the plan.
Bypassing the heavily-guarded bridge that ran 600 feet above the Maan River, the team descended from the plateu above into the river gorge, snuck across the icy stream, up a cable tunnel, and through a window.
Up for a bit of a climb?
They encountered a caretaker – who turned out to be a Norwegian who was happy to help.
The team placed the bombs – which destroyed the entire 1000-pound heavy-water supply – and escaped unscathed. The Germans dispatched 3,000 troops to try to catch the commandos – but all escaped, with six of them staying in Norway to carry on the battle, and the other five skiing to Sweden to return to the UK to carry on the war.
Most of the team, after the war. Front: Poulsson, commander Leif Tronstad, Ronneberg. (Back) Storhaug, Kayser, Idland, Helberg, Stromsheim.
Being lucky and skillful, they all survived the war.
Being Norwegian, most of them lived long, healthy lives afterwards; all but Idland lived into the 1990’s; Poullson passed away this past February 2. Knut Haugland died this past Christmas; he was probably best-known to Americans, having participated in Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon Tiki expedition in the late forties. Joachim Rønneberg is still alive.
There are those who say, with some factual justification, that the German nuke program could never have caught up with the US program, even without the Vemork raid.
Perhaps.
Thanks to eleven brave underdogs and their mission, patched together against impossible odds, we never needed to even try to imagine what London and Moscow would look like as craters. (more…)
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…but this bit here is music to my ears.
A majority of Americans now believe the Fed is the greatest threat to their rights:
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal governments become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
On the one hand, this is good news; it’s a sign that Obama’s mandate to use government to “change” and “bring hope” has dissipated.
Roger Ebert tweeted:
@ebertchicago: How did this Obama/Telepromoter meme get started? Have many Presidents been in less need of one?
I’ll leave the responses to you, gentle reader. It’s a rare open thread.
Current Conditions: Piercing headache.
Long-term Forecast: Warmer with a 70% chance of bike commuting next week.
The first 12 guys and girls results are in. Two of each going home this week. The verdict after the jump.
It’s official – the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers’ Sixth Annual Winter party is going to be Saturday, March 13 at Ol’ Mexico in Roseville.
There’s a Facebook invite going around – or you can RSVP to at the Yahoo.com email address “feedbackinthedark”, so we can get an idea of how many people to expect.
Come on out! We’d love to see you there!
…compared to the ice on a watched bike lane.
I’ve been patrolling the bike lanes on my main routes to get to work – Summit and/or Minnehaha Avenues – to see if the ice is anywhere close to receding far enough to make biking to work tenable.
Not yet. And I’ll cop to it; whatever motivation a zero-degree morning doesn’t sap, my cold-weather-averse kids do.
But next week? A couple of days above thirty-five should do to the ice what a couple of “get on the bus on time, see-ya!”‘s should do for the kids.
American Idol Season 9 featured the Top 12 guys performing. Follow the action after the jump…
Dave Mindemann sounds depressed:
I wonder if Pawlenty even wants to help anybody. He doesn’t care about the poor…we got that loud and clear. He’s playing games with the bonding bill, which means he is in no hurry to help with jobs. He reversed himself on climate change, which means he doesn’t give a rip anymore about the environment.
Let’s see, where to start? The Minnesota taxpayer already pays for some of the best benefits in the United States, so much so that they attract people to move here. There is plenty of wiggle room downward.
The bonding bill was larded with pork, and “cared about” mostly government jobs and swag for the construction unions.
And lots of people are reversing themselves on “climate change“; indeed, pretty soon the remaining Warmers will be like those Japanese soldiers who held out in the jungle for thirty years because they refused to believe Hirohito would ever surrender.
So buck up, little camper. Governor Pawlenty cares about all us poor schmuck taxpayers (remmeber us?) who are already getting sucked dry by our wortheless, spendthrift cities and counties.
Glad we could settle that.
A guy, in prison for four years for a rape he didn’t commit, is finally freed; the victim lied all along.
A young mother who falsely cried rape, sending an innocent man to prison for nearly four years, will experience firsthand what he suffered — she’ll spend one to three years behind bars for perjury.
“I wish her the best of luck,” said William McCaffrey last night of Biurny Peguero Gonzalez.
“Jail isn’t easy.”
McCaffrey, 33, of The Bronx, was locked up after Gonzalez accused him of raping her at knifepoint on a Bronx street back in 2005.
Ms. Gonzales, who concocted the story to explain to her idiot girlfriends why she ditched them while out clubbing, didn’t just lie once, either:
It was a lie she repeated to doctors, cops, prosecutors, a grand jury and the jury that convicted McCaffrey.h
The “rapist” McCaffrey didn’t have a great time of it in the joint, to say the least:
McCaffrey said he has some sympathy for Gonzalez and hopes she “doesn’t go through what I went though.
“I was an accused rapist in prison,” he said, adding that in prison, “rape is the worst crime possible.”
All is clearly not forgiven.
Nor should it be. McCaffrey’s case seems to support the accusation that, when it comes to accusations of rape or domestic violence made by women, that men are innocent until proven guilty.
In the comment section, some say that the District Attorney should in in jail alongside Ms. Gonzalez. Not sure about that – but if there’s evidence that the DA concealed exculpatory evidence, it would be a great idea.
Although I’m sure that the laws – largely written by lawyers including not a few former District Attorneys – shield them from exactly that. (No, I don’t know it, but that’s the way things seem to work out).
…I gotta cop to the fact that I’ve sorta let my leftyblog reading lapse a bit.
I mean, wouldn’t you?
But after one of my periodic sashays through the regional leftybloggery, I have to add that while he’s been wrong about pretty much every political question in eight years, I look forward to many more years of shaking my head and fisking a living, healthy Jeff Fecke, and wish him the best of luck in his treatment.
Bob Collins at MPR notes a crime that few others did:
In Colorado, a gunman walked into a school and started shooting kids, until a hero teacher tackled him.
I checked the story, from a Denver TV station:
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said the suspected shooter has been arrested. A well-placed source told CALL7 Investigators the suspect is Bruco Eastwood, 32. It’s unclear if Eastwood has any affiliation with the school. He likely will face two counts of attempted murder.
Witnesses said the gunman was tackled by math teacher David Benke as he apparently attempted to reload his high-powered rifle.
Wanna bet Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow jump on this bit here?
A parent who saw the incident told 7NEWS that the gunman kept mumbling to himself, “I’m fighting for freedom. I’m fighting for freedom,” as he was being taken down.
But Collins had a bigger question:
That’s not the story. This is the story: These stories are no longer considered newsworthy enough for the front page of the country’s major newspapers.
Collins wonders why. I think there are a couple of intertwining possibilities:
Am I too cynical? Am I cynical enough?
I amost feel like I’m switching into Telethon mode now. Because the subject of today’s stop on the tour around the MOB has been one of my favorite MOB blogs since the very early days of this blog – is, indeed, one of very few Minnesota blogs that was actually blogging before I was. And it’s one of the single best, most incisively analytical poltical blogs (with a healthy side of geekery) ever on the Minnesota blog scene. In a just world, he’d be as big as Ed Morrissey – his writing and analysis has always been in that league – and his blog would have the traffic to show it.
It’s Jay Reding. JR’s blog dates back to 2001, and from about 2003 through 2006 or so, he was writing great stuff nearly daily.
As with so many bloggers, personal life gets in the way; Reding (if I recall correctly) went to law school somewhere along the way, and if all went well he should be into all that “new lawyer” stuff by now. Either way, updates have been a little scarcer lately.
Excerpt? With that much material to choose from? Hard to do. Here’s a bit from his look back at his 2009 predictions:
Politics/National
- President Barack Obama’s popularity with the left will bleed away as he moves to governing as a centrist.Correct: Late in the year, liberal dissatisfaction started growing, as the President chose to double down on Afghanistan and failed to back the public option in healthcare. While liberals still tend to support the President, Obama has not given them everything they want, and that has not made the liberals very happy.
- Card check legislation will be narrowly defeated in Congress, preserving the rights of the American worker to a secret ballot.Not Quite: Card check has been pushed off until next year, where it may well be defeated, but it hasn’t yet gone away as a political issue.
- The Republican Party will continue to spend a year in the wilderness, while the seeds of political renewal will come from outside the party structure.Correct: The GOP remains mired, but the real energy lies in the Tea Party movement. The media paints the Tea Partiers as a radical fringe, and some of them undoubtedly are. However, they have energy and motivation, and that can make all the difference. Whether the GOP likes it or not, they will have to ingratiate themselves with the Tea Party movement and capture that energy in a constructive way. Doing so without alienating the vital center will be difficult, but it’s not impossible.
- Vice President Biden will say something incredibly stupid, creating a great deal of tension between him and President Obama.Duh: Predicting a Joe Biden gaffe is like predicting that the sun will come up in the east.
- Congress will continue to be unpopular as the economy continues to backslide and more and more scandals mount. By the end of the year, faith in American government will be at a new low.Again, Duh: Congress continues to be wildly unpopular with the American electorate, and sweetheart deals, political payoffs, and rampant corruption are to blame. People regard Congress with the same level of distaste they do with plague rats and filthy diapers—and who can blame them?
That’s Jay Reding. Here’s hoping he finds the time to dive back into it.
American Idol Season 9 opened tonight with the Top 12 girls performing. Follow the action after the jump…
Is Obama running out of gas?
Donald Sensing says maybe.
[Obamacare] didn’t pass then and hasn’t passed yet, and last November Joel Kotkin, executive editor of NewGeography.com and a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, concluded the same thing:
A good friend of mine, a Democratic mayor here in California, describes the Obama administration as “Moveon.org run by the Chicago machine.” This combination may have been good enough to beat John McCain in 2008, but it is proving a poor way to run a country or build a strong, effective political majority. And while the president’s charismatic talent – and the lack of such among his opposition – may keep him in office, it will be largely as a kind of permanent lame duck unable to make any of the transformative changes he promised as a candidate.
Now today comes the Associated Press with “Outlook no brighter for Obama’s new health plan:”
WASHINGTON – Starting over on health care, President Barack Obama knows his chances aren’t looking much more promising. A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday. Realistically, he’s just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.
When the left-leaning AP is saying “trouble”, there’s trouble. And perception is reality, especially among our not-that-bright political class:
This is not far from becoming a meme, and in Washington politics memes take on a life of their own, creating reality as much as reflecting it.
It’s not a bad thing – in principle. A gridlocked government is a government that can’t screw up the economy.
I’m a conservative. I’m pretty ideological about it (which manifests itself in the fact that I write a conservative blog).
But I’m no purist. I try to be pretty tough about my reasons for departing from my ideology – and let’s be honest, it’s easy for me, personally, to be pretty uncompromising, because I neither govern nor represent anyone. Just like all the other ideological purists – the Libertarians, the Greens and the Constitution Party.
Being a purist is the mark of those who sit in splendid, uncompromising isolation, unhampered by ever having to worry about governing anything.
Brown votes for Obama’s “jobs” bill:
A month after being crowned the darling of national conservatives, Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is being branded “Benedict Brown” for siding with Democrats in favor of a jobs bill endorsed by the Obama administration.
Like the four other GOP senators who joined him, the man who won the late Democrat Edward Kennedy’s seat says it’s about jobs, not party politics. And that may be good politics, too.
In Massachusetts, it just might.
The four other GOP senators who broke ranks – Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, George Voinovich of Ohio and Christopher “Kit” Bond of Missouri – also were criticized on Tuesday. But Brown was the big target on conservative Web sites, talk shows and even the Facebook page his campaign has promoted as an example of his new-media savvy.
“We campaigned for you. We donated to your campaign. And you turned on us like every other RINO,” said one writer, using the initials for “Republican-In-Name-Only.”
Buncombe. He’s a moderate guy in a whackdoodle liberal state.
And as big a waste as this “jobs” bill is, it’s small potatoes compared to Obamacare and the various stimulus and bailout bills – which Brown campaigned against.
Do RINOs exist? Sure.
The new senator responded by calling into a Boston radio station.
“I’ve taken three votes,” Brown said with exasperation. “And to say I’ve sold out any particular party or interest group, I think, is certainly unfair.”
The senator said that by the time he seeks re-election in two years, he will have taken thousands of votes.
“So, I think it’s a little premature to say that,” he said.
Of course it is.
And let’s face it – Brown is going to have a more centrist record than a John Kyl; he represents Massachusetts. We knew he wasn’t an orthodox conservative. But let’s not talk about “RINOs” until he’s been in office 6-12 months, or until he squibs out on a promise, like Obamacare.
The bad thing about this, of course, is that the left is going to try to use this as a wedge between the GOP and the Tea Party. To succeed, the GOP needs to share some goals with the Tea Party; the Tea Party, in turn, needs to live Ronald Reagan’s admonition; if you agree with someone on 70% of things, you need to ignore the other 30% and get along with things.
Says Alan Greenspan, the “recovery” at the moment is benefitting those who never really needed it in the first place:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the U.S. economic recovery was “extremely unbalanced,” driven largely by high earners benefiting from recovering stock markets and large corporations.
Small businesses and the jobless are still suffering from the aftermath of a credit crunch that was “by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever” — including the 1930s Great Depression, said Greenspan in an address to a Credit Union National Association conference.
After a year of “stimuli”, the “recovery” seems to be focused on big businesses and government workers:
“It’s really an extraordinarily unbalanced system because we’re dealing with small businesses who are doing badly, small banks in trouble, and of course there is an extraordinarily large proportion of the unemployed in this country who have been out of work for more than six months and many more than a year,” said Greenspan, who headed the Fed from 1987 to 2006.
With both housing starts and auto sales “dead in the water,” he said he thought it would be difficult to make the case that the economy is poised for a strong rebound.
At best.
Derek “Chief” Brigham over at Freedom Dogs has taken an unscientific (!!!) poll of Minnesota conservative bloggers for the gubernatorial race. Unsurprisingly, Tom Emmer won, bigtime.
I’m listed under the “Has a candidate, but isn’t spilling it publicly yet” category, along with David Strom, Margaret Martin and Sue Jeffers. The fact is, with the departure of Dave Hann from the race, I am leaning in one direction – but I’m not going to say which one yet. Partly because, hello, I’m a schmuck blogger and nobody cares what I think. Partly because it’s early, and I could still change my mind, depending on how this session goes. And partly because, hello, do I want to get the other candidate’s people cheesed off at me so they’ll never appear on the NARN again?
And mainly because the fact is, whichever one wins the nomination, I’ll back him 100%, along with pretty much the entire MNGOP slate. While I’ve never considered myself a straight ticket voter, the only DFLers I’ve been able to justify voting for since the mid-nineties have been Norm Coleman and Randy Kelly. As to the Independence Party? Get serious. Jim Gibson’s Senate candidacy was the only IP bid I’ve ever considered voting for (and I didn’t; Rod Grams needed my vote more). The GOP, imperfect as it is, is the only party in Minnesota that covers most of what I believe in and has any impact on the way this state is run (shaddap, Constitution Party).
Over on Facebook, a DFL-leaning lobbyist asked what kind of record conservative bloggers have at predicting general elections. The answer is “none”; we’re not the general public.
What it does predict, I think, is a spirited endorsement process and State Convention, the kind that’s going to lead to a much better GOP effort in the fall.
Eight years ago, MNGOP establishment candidate Tim Pawlenty had lukewarm support from a conservative wing that’d been ignored for decades, but which was gaining power. Their candidate, Brian Sullivan, ran a highly successful insurgency, driving the final convention race out to 560 ballots over the course of 467 straight hours of voting at the 2002 MNGOP convention; he only clinched the nomination when he took the Taxpayer’s League’s “No New Taxes” pledge, promising to spend his term(s) as a fiscal hawk – something that’d never have happened without the Sullivan challenge. Would Brian Sullivan have won the general election had he gotten the nomination? We’ll never know; conventional wisdom was that he was “too conservative”, but Roger Moe was a bit of a stiff, and probably a lot more vulnerable than the keepers of the “conventional wisdom” want to admit. But in a sense he, and his supporters, did win; their insurgency pushed Pawlenty to adopt a key piece of Sullivan’s platform, in a sense perhaps the most important one.
This year? The delegate count is shaping up pretty tight so far, although there’s a long, long way to go. Emmer’s done a good job of staying in front of the Tea Party, but Seifert’s organization is a formidable one.
The point being that, from where I sit, either Seifert, the establishment candidate, or Emmer the conservative firebrand, will make a better governor than any of the vacuous hamsters the DFL is putting forward. And an imperfect “good enough”, whether it’s an imperfect conservative (who’s been driven to the right by the Tea Party and an Emmer push) or an unrepentant Conservative (who’s got the whole MNGOP working for him) is going to be better than any of the alternatives.
Berg’s Seventh Law – when liberals defame conservatives, they’re projecting – just keeps gaining evidence.
Remember three years ago, when the wahabbi global warmingists were demanding “scientific Nuremberg trials” for global warming skeptics – as if belief in sound science were akin to a war crime?
Yep. Unethical. And it should be investigated. Not as a war crime, naturally; more like fraud, with the complicity of vast swathes of government, academia, the media and the UN:
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.
“In [Gore’s] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress.
To be serious for a moment, I’m not sure Algore’s little flight of fancy – as damaging as it was – deserves criminal investigation. Ignominy will do.
But for a bunch of “scientists” and politicians who tried to gin up a worldwide fraud to bring money and political power to themselves (allegedly)?
I think it’s worth a look.
Victorian Harry Reid wants to pass a huge pork-barrel “jobs” bill that will benefit only government jobs…
Reid, speaking in the midst of a Senate debate over whether to pass a $15 billion package meant to spur job creation, appeared to argue that joblessness would lead to more domestic violence.
“I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Why? Men don’t have jobs.”
Men, you see, are slaves to their base urges. Harry say man no have job, man hit:
Reid said that the effects of joblessness on domestic violence were especially pronounced among men, because, Reid said, women tend to be less abusive.
“Women don’t have jobs either, but women aren’t abusive, most of the time,” he said.
Well, that’s not really true, but Reid’s gotta answer to his political masters, and it’s a little off-topic anyway.
“Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive,” the majority leader added. “Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.”
Hear that, all you guys in Nevada? If Big Brother doesn’t keep you amused and occupied, you just can’t help taking it out on those around you. Your little male peabrain can’t handle the tough times.
Here’s hoping the voters of Nevada send Reid home to pummel his wife to sit in a support group for potentially violent out-of-work Democrats soon.
Every once in a while you run into a blog on the MOBroll that you want to use some mentalist-fu to get everyone to put on their daily blog-reading menu.
Frequent Shot In The Dark commenter “Master of None”, the proprietor of his eponymous blog, is one of those for me. MoN is one of the stalwarts of this blog’s comment section, and his blog is one of the better small political-oriented blogs on the ‘roll.
I liked this post, where he fact-checked one of the hamsters the DFL is trying to run against Erik Paulsen (R-MN3)
As I reported, here and here, DFL Congressional candidate wannabe Dr. Maureen Hackett isn’t quite sure what party her heart belongs to (or her checkbook). Now, it’s being reported in the Star Tribune. that it’s not completely clear she knows who she’s running against.
While Bachmann’s extremism has won her great reviews from her right-wing base, it’s not acceptable here in the 3rd District.
Trying to compare Michelle Bachman to Erik Paulsen is a tactic that failed miserably in 2008, and it is doomed to failure in 2010 for one very good reason. Paulsen has been very smart in putting together a voting record that is differentiated enough from Bachmann’s yet stays true to Republican core values. Paulsen’s votes against the stimulus, health care reform, and cap and trade not only place him solidly in the fiscally conservative camp, they also happen to be on the winning side of public opinion polls. But, on some smaller issues, extension of SCHIP and funding for solar energy, for example, Congressman Paulsen moderated his voting record and went against the Republican grain. Enough so that even some local chants of “RINO” have emerged from right wing political types with no experience in winning elections.
A scientist/engineer by trade, MoN brings some much-needed clarity of thought to blogging, along with some fun trivia about growing up in Alaska.
MoN updates regularly; here’s hoping he stays with it. Of course, nothing encourages regular writing like lots of traffic!
Hint hint.
Read this assortment of complaint letters received by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority about their tollbooth collectors.
And then remember that this is the level of commitment that the Dems want to bring to your healthcare.
See you at the next Tea Party.
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