Chuck Grassley on Health Care Reform

Senator Chuck Grassley is probably the highest profile member of the Senate Finance Committee, considered a key panel in health care reform. He is one of the Gang of Six, a Republican from Iowa. He has been especially dangerous to the prospect of real health care reform. At one point he even endorsed Sarah Palin's nutty idea of Death Panels. Here are a couple of grafs from Dakota Farmer outlining Grassley's latest Pearls of Wisdom.

Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says the outpouring of anger at town hall meetings this month has fundamentally altered the nature of the health-care debate and convinced him that lawmakers should consider drastically scaling back the scope of the effort. Grassley says the public has rejected the far-reaching proposals Democrats have put on the table, viewing them as overly expensive precursors to a government takeover of health care.

"People are signaling that we ought to slow up and find out where we are and don't spend so much money and don't get us so far into debt," said Grassley. The ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley hopes the panel can draft a better, less costly plan capable of winning broad support from Democrats and Republicans.

Grassley has had no problem voting for wars that cost billons of dollars each month.

Incidentally, Grassley has also said, no matter what Judiciary cranks out on health care reform, he ain't gonna vote for it. No wonder. Look at the bribes he has taken. (Source: Open Secrets)

As you can see, most of the bribes are from health industry companies and are self-explanatory. DaVita, Inc., specializes in kidney disease and dialysis.

Gang of Six -- Unplugged

The Gang of Six, three Democrats and three Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee seem to have been appointed or appointed themselves the six go-to people on the Health Care Reform issue. In other words, nothing is supposed to get done without them. They are
• Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
• Charles Grassley (R. Iowa)
• Mike Enzi R. (Wyo.)
• Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)
• Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
• Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)

You will notice that Republicans Grassley of Iowa, Enzi of Wyoming and Democrat Baucus of Montana are all from relatively small states. These three have way too much power representing way too few people. And Conrad, of North Dakota. What's up with him? Not especially supportive of the President, and from a state with just enough people to fill a bingo hall.

OK, here is what we are going to do. Over the next six days, or so, we will feature each one of these Gang of Six Senators, explaining their positions on Health Care Reform, along with a listing of the bribes they have taken. (Bribes are usually described as campaign contributions, but we call it as we see it.)

We'll start with Grassley tomorrow unless the Little Woman has too many chores around the house for me to do and I can't get to it. In which case I'll get to it Monday.

Sewer Cleanout

If you ever have a blockage in your sewer pipes, this orange snake thing will save you a hundred bucks or more. I bought it for $20, it fits on the drill shaft and you feed the steel snake down into your sewer line through a cleanout opening.

I have a troublesome sewer line to our septic tank. I bet I've saved a thousand dollars using this thing. It cleans out blocked sewer lines like a charm. The toilet won't flush, it backs up into the shower and the sweetest sound when you are using this tool is the drain opening up and sewage and water swirling down the drain. Then you have to clean out the shower.

I have no stock or any other interest in the company that makes the thing.

There must be a joke about Republicans in here somewhere.

Against Health Care Reform? Let's Get Out to a RALLY!

Hey, anti-health care people, lets get out to a rally this week to drive home our points for No Health Care Reform.

• No shackles on insurance companies forcing them to hold down costs, keep sick people enrolled, or allow people with pre-existing conditions to become policyholders. We believe in the free enterprise system, not socialism! Millions of children uninsured in this country? Boo hoo. Let the kids learn early, no socialist fascist Hitler takeover in the good old USA!

• Some Democrat liberals will tell you that Stephen J. Hemsley, CEO of United Health Care, a big insurance company made a billion dollars last year. Don't you believe it. He only got $3.24 million in salary and $250 million in stock options. Now does that seem extreme to you for an important guy in charge of an important insurance company that makes life and death decisions for your doctor?

• No big government public option in competition with the insurance companies. Another socialistic fascist Hitler government takeover scheme.

• No fascist schemes to allow people without health insurance to get cheaper health insurance than whatever we have now. If people can't afford health insurance, let them work harder until they can afford it. Simple as that.

• And if you can't afford health care (who can these days?), just don't get sick. Remember, we have to fight the idea of a big socialistic nazi government takeover of the health care business.

• No health care for illegal immigrants or aliens from outer space or endangered polar bears.

• No sneaky hidden amendments allowing government bureaucrats to kill gramma. No Hitler Death Panels.

Let's get out to a rally soon. We can't let Obama reform health care. And don't forget to bring your gun!
Photos from CBS News

What's in the Obama Health Reform Plan

THIS IS the second time I have posted this blog. It's important for everyone to know what is really in the Obama plan.

• Gramma is toast. Bye Bye Gramma.
• Your Medicare will be cancelled, and Obama will charge you for that.
• After going before the Peoples Glorious Collective Death Panel, Sarah Palin's new baby will be ground up and fed to zoo animals.
• The plan will cover all illegal aliens, even if they have been deported to Mexico.
• The plan will pay for all abortions, including those of illegal aliens from outer space and polar bears.
• The new health care plan will be administered by a Health Czar Ivan Boris Walkitov, who served as The People's Glorious Commissar of Health in the Soviet Union. Here he will have the title, First Secretary of the Peoples Glorious Central Committee on Health Care which will tell your doctor whether you should live or die.
• If you have leprosy or any of a hundred other nasty diseases, they will send you to a Peoples Medical Concentration Camp in Utah.
• You will be required to have a picture of Karl Marx tattooed on your forehead
• The government will install chips in your head to listen to everything you say.
• The government will install chips in your doctor's head.
• You will be required to go to Peoples Re-education Meetings once a month to familiarize you with the new health plan.
• The government will send you to whatever doctor they like, even if it is 200 miles from your house. This is designed to control costs.
• If you have a medical emergency, get in line. You may have to wait a couple of weeks for that nasty head injury or ruptured appendix.
• Wealthy people will be paying more taxes, so they will be way ahead of you in line.
• At your doctor's office you will have to wear a hospital gown decorated with red hammers and sickles.
• In the waiting room you will be required to read old copies of Soviet Life, and you will hear piped in MUZAK featuring the Internationale, over and over and over and over.
• You will not get your country back. A black man born in Kenya will still be president.

My Latest Message to President Obama

President Obama, we supported you and worked for you during the campaign. You have become a disappointment. You have allowed the Republicans to define your health care reform efforts with lies. Death Camps. Bye Bye gramma. Government takeover. All that. You have got to offer some leadership. I suggest you commandeer some network TV time to put the lies to rest and clearly lay out your vision, including the public option which is necessary. Without it, there is no health reform, no matter what you call it.

I hope you are sending messages to your Congressional Representatives and Obama.

Incredible News from Unnamed Mysterious Unreliable Sources

We have leaned that Barack Hussen Obama was not born in Kenya as has previously been reported. Nor was he born in Pakistan, Indonesia or Hawaii. The Hawaiian birth certificate, obviously a fake document created to support the illusion that Obama is a U.S. citizen, has been debunked by dozens of patriots who have shown up at health care rallies with posters questioning Obama's place of birth. To put an exclamation point on it, some of these people have carried weapons.

Sadly, these people are somewhat misguided. But it is not their fault. The facts have been concealed by the government for years.

The fact is, Barack Hussein Obama is an alien from outer space. The problem is not that he is a foreigner not constitutionally eligible to be president. Obama was not even born on this planet. To those skeptics and liberals ready to laugh this off as the ravings of an uninformed nut, we have proof. The photo here is of an alien taken shortly after an exraterrestrial saucer crash at the notorious Area 51 north of Las Vegas. Note the close resemblance to Barack Hussein Obama. Now it becomes clear why Obama pretends to be African-American. He is concealing his alien appearance under the guise of an earthling of a different race. But now we know better. Obama is an extraterrestrial being from outer space! What further proof do you need?

However we invite those skeptics still unconvinced to inspect the photo of the spacecraft of the type we believe carried Obama here from a distant planet. Solid proof.

We are ready now to be interviewed by reporters at CNN and Fox. We welcome inquiries from Lou Dobbs Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. We are determined to put to rest the ridiculous stories that Barack Hussein Obama was born in some foreign country, or even Hawaii. He was not. He is from somewhere out there.