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Friday, March 19, 2010

Hold Your Horses

And Your Nose

The rancid back and forth in the contentious health care debate is giving me a head-ache. Bishops fighting Nuns, bloggers fighting bloggers, catholic editorialists fighting catholic dictatorialists, Jesuits trying hard not to fight Dominicans, and disinformation and misinformation flying faster than winter geese to Miami.

Yes, folks, there ARE Amendments to the Senate Bill. The same Senate bill is not the document the House is voting on. Have you read them?

Statements issue and judgment is passed before the final bill is on the table.
Why is there, for example, not a link on any rabid denouncer's site to the actual text of the bill or what is being proposed as an amendment. Surely, they are techie savvy enough to know how to do this.

Some things are a matter of 'statutory interpretation' others a matter of 'statutory construction.' Some are black and white clear as the nose on your face.

One thing that we all should agree on is that (a) the system is broken now and threatens to bankrupt too many people and cripples parts of the economy, and (b) we need to fix it, not obstruct progress.

Let's play nice, boys and girls. People's lives may depend on it- and you don't want to be the Anti-Lazarus of our economy.

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