Um, no. Go jump off a cliff, please.

Well . . . would you have liked 72 hours before the Patriot Act was passed in order to actually read the bill?

I guess you all have way more faith in the good intentions of Senator Baucus than I have, because I don't trust this committee to ultimately pass a bill that favors citizens over insurance companies (I hate using the word "consumers" when describing those who get health care).

I didn't see Senator Roberts or his Republican colleagues saying "Hey, maybe we shouldn't vote on the drastic measures in this P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act legislation until the public has had 72 hours to look it over." Oh, no, that had to be voted on even before the ink was dry on the bill. Ask for input from the general public? Why on earth would you want to do that?

he's too lazy to read it and come up with pro-insurer objections on his own, so he wanted lobbyists to do his work for him (as is typical I'm sure)

Now there's not a lot of context here, but it sounds like you are confusing "insurers" with "providers." Roberts asked for time "for the people that the providers have hired" to review the legislation. Doesn't that mean the doctors' lobbyists, not the insurers' lobbyists? I'd think that's an important difference.

You have to love Blanche being the one Dem to vote against it and make it 12-11. It's going to be very hard to count on her to vote down the road. We really need to primary her.

John