{"id":2269,"date":"2009-12-16T06:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2009-12-16T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:46:16","slug":"hump-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/12\/16\/hump-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hump Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, well, no “Public Option,” and no Medicare buy-in, but at least we’ll get some relief on medications with a new drug re-importation law. Ha! Gotcha! Byron Dorgan’s amendment may have had a majority of Senators<\/a> on board, but only 51 of them, so it’s dead, Jim. It looked like there would be enough votes for cloture last week, but President Obama showed just how forceful a leader he can be if properly motivated, and the prospect of Americans (and the Federal Government) saving billions of dollars on drugs at the expense of Big Pharma losing a few bucks was enough to launch the President into action. Good job, Barry, but I think you can do more. Why not mandate<\/em><\/strong> medication for everybody or something? Not pot, though – legalizing and taxing marijuana is just plain silly. I mean, you can’t patent pot, so there’s no money in it for the pharmaceutical companies. Kinda makes you wanna break out your Lee Greenwood albums, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

In another of the “Great Moments of the Obama Administration,” looks like there’s a new Federal jobs program. This one involves sending more than 50,000 contractors to Afghanistan<\/a> (that’s on top of the 100,000 or so already there). Not only will this add jobs, but some of them are sure to get killed, creating more openings. It’s a win-win.<\/p>\n

Joe Lieberman told the Democratic caucus that he’s sorry<\/a> (well, not actually sorry, but he has “regrets”) for being such a douchebag pain in the ass. And PA Senator Bob Casey was really, really touched (probably close to tears) by Joey’s words.<\/p>\n

“One thing that he acknowledged, which was important, was how difficult this has been for people on both sides of it,” Casey said of Lieberman. “I was struck by how human that moment was….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gee. I’m really fuckin’ struck, too. All’s forgiven, Joe. I love you, man!<\/p>\n

By the way, Tiger, you’ve got two hours to come up with some hush money, or I go public with our affair. You think your sponsors are a little uneasy with a golfer than can’t keep his 3-wood in the bag, wait until they find out you can only get off if you’re on all fours pretending to line up a putt. Just sayin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, well, no “Public Option,” and no Medicare buy-in, but at least we’ll get some relief on medications with a new drug re-importation law. Ha! Gotcha! Byron Dorgan’s amendment may have had a majority of Senators on board, but only 51 of them, so it’s dead, Jim. It looked like there would be enough votes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}