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Even John Madden would call it confusing
It’s time once again for The Future American’s FAIL OF THE WEEK! Every Saturday, I name a person or group who has spent the past seven days behaving in a particularly idiotic way. Since it’s my belief...
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Draft “Sarah’s Bill” or shut up
If someone used my child for partisan squawking, I would punch them in the face. That’s just how I roll, though. Whether the parents of 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan ever do such a thing to Rep. Tom...
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Dispatches from the House gym
Of course a bill calling for regular federal physical fitness guidelines would come from the member of Congress who looks like this. (Dear men: Not all women find this body type attractive. I...
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Destroying embryos or destroying these guys’ grants?
If it’s at all possible to boil a high-profile lawsuit down to “This would cut in on our action,” you should probably just ignore the plaintiff. This is the case in Sherley v. Sebelius, in which two...
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Don’t hate the games, heal the players
Reasonable causes to link to the Newtown shooting: lax gun laws, even more lax mental health services. Unreasonable causes: the decline of school prayer, unarmed principals (we’ll get deeper into this...
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Monstrous amounts of stimulants
I have consumed at least one cup of coffee per day, three tops, since the age of 14, but never an energy drink. Adam tried 5-Hour Energy once and found it ineffective, and he never drinks coffee, just...
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Disposal Day #128: It’s kinda sorta constitutional, bitches
The conversation about the individual health insurance mandate tucked into President Obama's health care reform legislation has, since yesterday's ruling, shifted from "Is it constitutional?" to "Who...
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Congress and those jagged little pills
I don't think it's too much to ask that the industry pay for inspection fees themselves. They're the ones who ultimately lose money because of counterfeit drugs.
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A half-liter idea with a one-ounce message
Bloomberg has not proven that massive sodas are such a leading cause of obesity that they merit a full-scale ban. And even if this is just the tip of the iceberg . . . is it either productive or right...
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Color commentary on the Obamacare Games
Incredibly, I was able to find some stuff about the Obamacare hearings to cover this week. . . . As we speak, the nine justices are debating exactly what to do if the individual health insurance...
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Rethinking Obamacare many, many challenges later
One idea of Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) campaign-era ideas that I always liked was a requirement that proponents of any federal legislation must prove its constitutionality. Had that rule been in...
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Hey, look! A real-life job-killing tax hike!
This week's fail was brought to you by whoever thought this was a good idea: a 2.3 percent excise tax on the medical device industry, imposed to pay for Obamacare. . . . the Senate caucus's Democratic...
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And in the red corner . . .
I have absolutely no sympathy for lobbyists who fear that USConJointSelComDefRed may be impervious to their influence . . . The nation's 29 Republican governors, on the other hand, are a different...
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Congress just wants a peek!
. . . a school is the perfect place to put a health center, especially for lower-income families. The health-care reform package passed in 2009 would have appropriated funds for this purpose . . ....
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Obama hearts Romney
Obama may have handed Romney the most humiliating moment of his career by praising the individual health insurance mandate he enacted as governor. . . . He used this as a jumping-off point to offer a...
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It is NOT a goddamn death panel!!!
In a discussion of health care yesterday . . . we talked about which services could be considered "non-essential" and left out of public coverage. Routine check-ups and the sniffles were two examples....
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I knew we forgot something
The individual mandate in President Obama's health care overhaul was a tough political sell from the beginning. . . . I regret that I didn't pause to consider the constitutionality. At least someone...
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Sick of health care yet?
Several people have asked for my opinion of the health care bill thus far. I told them I wouldn't say much of anything until I saw how the Senate was planning to tweak it. . . . Before we do that,...
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Disposal Day #11: More goddamn health care updates
. . . President Obama is reportedly telling individual Democratic lawmakers to vote for the bill to save their own electoral chances . . . I'm not sure a failure to pass the health care bill would harm...
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The mistake of expecting political consistency
Having spent the better part of a year following President Obama's health care reform effort, I have finally come to the conclusion that it started out too ambitious. . . . it was nonetheless a...
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