DOZENS fo GOP vote Aye in support of the ONE cost saving thing in the horror show health care bill and so called progressive democratic Senators kill it

Rockefeller, Schumer, Durbin, Burris, Menendez, Reid all kill RX reimportation

the WH and the Senate Dems killed the only good thing in the stinky bill, nice commercials for the GOP in 10/12

These include but are not limited to:

• celeb schlongs, new clown boobs or vaJayJays;
  
• tv shows featuring the phrase "serial killer" anywhere in the premise or plot description;
  
• political hooey where you're supposed to care more about the issue than the media wh0re posing for the camera;
  
• promises that this YouToob moment or that one will be the next 'Don't Tase Me Bro';
  
• some blogger/pol a blogger/pol normally hates gets/nails it;
  
• Tiger v Polanski: which is the next trial of the century;
  
• Sarah Palin (her blip was up long ago; really, she's flogging a fricken book, she's not even Katherine Harris, people!)
  
• holiday movies gathering together a diverse focus group and shenanigans ensuing;

At least Bill Clinton was honest enough to admit that his room for maneuver, among the giants of Wall Street, was slight, and to eke out a few progressive changes in a neo-liberal ideological environment. His wife might do the same. Arguably. Edwards might have done even more. Perhaps.

But isn't that better than Obama's fantasy politics that denies the hard political realities altogether? And isn't that denial the very source of his success? His allusions to Reagan make sense to me--because, like Reagan, this guy is an all-purpose symbol-sponge, designed to absorb potentially dangerous energies in the young while making politics safe for Wall Street and big corporations.

Remember--MLK, Gandhi--these people only became symbols AFTER they had died and during their lives had been reviled as dangerous partisan figures. Someone who becomes a symbol BEFORE he/she has DONE anything is probably a dupe for the powers that be.

On Saturday morning the body of one climber was found. The other two are still missing. The weather has deteriorated. It is snowing; up to 12 more inches are expected tomorrow. Yesterday was clear enough that helicopters were able to conduct aerial searches. No sign of the missing climbers. Severe avalanche risk is hampering the ground search.

You may recall that three years ago this month, another group of three experienced climbers were lost on Mt. Hood. The body of one was found. The other remain lost on the mountain.

None of the current lost climbers carried a locator beacon. A beacon rents for 5 bucks. Efforts to require that Mt. Hood climbers carry beacons have so far been defeated. The climbing community, including mountain rescue, insist that beacons are not necessary and would be a danger to climbers, not a safety item. They claim that with beacons climbers would take more risks. Proponents of the beacons sight the risks taken by rescuers every time a climber is lost, to say nothing of the expense of the rescue missions.

Tiger Woods' Canadian sports medicine doctor will soon be slapped with criminal charges related to performance-enhancing drugs after investigations by the FBI and RCMP

This just in my inbox from Washington Post -
as breaking news:

"The IRS has issued an exception to tax rules for the benefit of companies including Citigroup. As a result, Citigroup will be allowed to retain $38 billion in tax breaks that otherwise would decline in value when the government sells its stake to private investors."

The guy spread so much freakin' joy its unfathomable...