Meanwhile, the debate on health care in the US is bubbling along nicely. (Unless, of course you want/need an abortion.)
I watched a clip on cspan, of the right to (someone else’s) life nutters in the congress. Spouting hate and bullshit about how they’d saved so many lives with the Stupak amendment.
I damn near threw a shoe at the TV.
It’s going to be a mighty tough fight in the senate, if the Dems want to remove that piece of hate crime masquerading as legislation.

In better news, one of my favourite bloggers is back online and just as funny as ever.
Helen is the one who coined that immortal line….

Michele Bachmann’s wheel is still spinning, but the hamster is dead.

Now she’s back with more comedy gold. Try…

Sarah Palin wrote a book. It was co-authored by a million monkeys on a million typewriters.

http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

My understanding is that there are at least two more additional votes before anything touches Obama’s desk. First of the Senate have to vote on their version of a Health Care bill and then comes reconciliation of the House bill with said Senate bill which in principal results in a new reconciled bill which is voted upon by both House and Senate.

KatieLou – have I got it right?

I think We The People will be plenty agro if they now have Healthcare snatched away from them or diluted to swill by the Senate. A lot of decent tax-paying Americans are expecting their President will apply gentle persuasion where necessary. As he indeed did on this historic occasion.

Olberman is right on to him though and maybe he is out here trying to distract from his most recent award in the US.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/olbermann-murdoch-worst-p_n_348554.html

Reid’s political campaign for re-election has received a major boost, after the front-runner GOP challenger recently laughed off an attempt on Reid’s life back in 1981. Sue Lowden, former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman, joked about the assassination attempt that occurred when Reid was chairman of the state Gaming Control Board. An explosive device that had been placed under the hood of Reid’s car failed to ignite. Lowden’s bizarre jesting—which she has subsequently denied—has all but eliminated her as a serious contender in the 2010 senate race.

At the time of the botched murder, Lowden was a news reporter at KLAS TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas. She was a close friend of the city’s preeminent investigative reporter covering the mob-related violence then pervading the city, and also was dating her future husband—a casino owner. In a recent interview, Lowden claimed never to have heard about the bomb. “If Lowden hadn’t been a television news reporter then, her memory lapse would have been understandable,” wrote Las Vegas Review Journal columnist John L. Smith. “If she weren’t married to casino man Paul Lowden…who climbed the casino ranks at a time…[when casino] executives were getting blown up, indicted, and running for their lives.”

continued on the Daily Beast

Now, Chris back to your clip for the magic moment……