Monday Musings: November 9, 2009

If the blog seems a bit thin by the end of the week, don’t despair. Although it would be kind of cool if Maven’s absence did cause you to despair just a little bit. I’m traveling to the big wedding event in Florida, that promises to be as much family reunion ( Mr. Maven’s side of the clan ) as anything. I’m on tap as the Official Photographer, which is always a bit scary since I’m hardly a professional.

Anyway, I’ll be having a blast and I hope that your week goes well too. I’ll be back sometime next week.

In a historic eleventh hour vote in the House, we have a health insurance reform bill. I wasn’t exactly jumping up and down for joy however. The bill is like a lot of things that are born of committee’s … they don’t resemble any of their parents, and nobody really seems to want to take ownership of the bastard, “heinz 57” offspring.

About all you can say for it is that it’s a limping lurch in the right direction.

The Stupak Amendment in drag.

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Nothing to say? Then, attack, attack, attack.

Matt Lauer’s expression at the very end of this ridiculous interview with the ‘other Ann Coulter’, Michelle Malkin, is priceless. It’s like he can’t figure out what planet this woman just beamed in from … and he dare not speak its name on camera.

This is exactly how the far right spin machine frames important national issues … by personal attacks. They don’t stop with the President, but go after his wife as well. Oh, and a claws-bared swipe at Sen. Lindsay Graham, for not being party line enough for her tastes. It doesn’t end there.

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