FYI: it's HR 3200

Spent a lot of time looking for the text of the health care bill that's getting all the attention. It's HR3200, and if you want to download 1008 or so pages of text, it's available at http://www.opencongress.org/. You can also vote Yay or Nay on it at the web site, too. When I was there, the score was 48 Yay; 266 Nay. That's a positive sign.

What I've learned about the bill so far:

• It does include a government-run socialized medicine program. In fact, if you don't have a private insurance policy on the day this piece of crap goes into effect, you won't be able to get private insurance anymore. Same if you change jobs or something. You won't be able to buy into or be added onto a private policy. I'll take Investor's Business Daily's word on this. They said they called Congress to double-check. This means the bill is definitely a program to phase in a single-payer, government-monopoly health care system. The private insurers will simply wither away.
• Its significant sponsors are Miller, Rangel, and Waxman -- the same Waxman who brought us that stinking crap-and-tax Energy bill. He's obviously in hock to Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps she's blackmailing him. At any rate, the man is incorrigible and probably should be charged with treason. He could claim ignorance in defense. Obviously he knows nothing about the United States of America, the principles behind it, or the purpose for which is was established. How this butthead ever got into office is something I'll never understand. Oh... he's from California, the great bankrupt idiot state of... What is it with Californians? Too much sun? Snake bite? Maybe it's the water. Or some mysterious insanity-inspiring noxious gas seeping into the air from the San Andreas Fault? They all seem to have some kind of problem connecting with reality. Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Waxman.... And they all believe they know how everyone else in the world should live. Yeah, let's follow their example; California is a positive model of fiscal responsibility. Let's keep our fingers crossed for "The Big One." One big rumble and the whole mess will just drift out to sea and sink with nary a bubble. We can only hope.
• It does "tax the rich." The idiots who wrote it obviously are unaware of the fact that the rich can rearrange their assets and even move them to the Cayman Islands. The rich don't pay any more than they want to. And those "rich" who are small business owners... all they'll do is lay people off. That'll boost the economy.
• Uninsured individuals will be forced to buy some kind of insurance. Question: how will this be enforced? The Health Care Tactical Squad? They'll stop us on street corners and demand to see our insurance membership cards, slapping cigarettes out of our hands, busting pregnant women caught sipping coffee, leading us all in forced calisthenics at commuter train stations, chasing fat people around with liposuction devices. And who's going to be paying their salaries? And how will they function effectively in "concealed carry" states?

Other features unverified, and which may belong to other health care bills:

• Not sure if this bill penalizes (taxes and fines) businesses that don't provide employee insurance, but I'd say that was a fair guess.
• IF the above is true, companies who employ union workers are exempt from the penalties -- result of Obama puckering up to his cuddly-wuddly union supporters -- most of whom are government workers. Let's see if the membership supports him in the next election after all of the Comrade's fascist diktats go into effect. Well.... maybe he can count on the SEIU, but they aren't really a union anymore, more like an on-demand marxist cheering section. I can't wait until those buttheads show up at my door to ask about the census so I can push them down the front steps and watch my pitbull lock his jaws onto their ankles.
• Congresscritters and probably other government employees -- who are 74% union members anyway -- will be able to keep their insurance rather than being forced into the government program. Not a ringing endorsement, is it? Here, you peons deal with this crap, it'll keep you alive just long enough to pay for our perks and goodies.

On the plus side, most political analysts with any brains are giving the bill not much of a chance of passing. But, you know, something I've learned is -- You simply can't under-estimate the US Congress.

Comrade Osama made a brief appearance to hawk this piece of crap legislation this afternoon. He was 40 minutes late for his own "press conference" -- not really a press conference, rather an announcement, or presidential bull, passed down to the press corps from on-high. The press was called to attend, but they couldn't ask questions. And it was hardly worth the wait, more like, "Step right up and getcher free health care!" Or we'll shove it down your throat.

Why was the Comrade 40 minutes late? After all, the press conference was his idea. No doubt he was having trouble getting that last page of the announcement faxed from ACORN headquarters in outer Mongolia, or from the HQ of some marxist crony, then loading it up on the teleprompter. Wonder if he read it before it popped up on the teleprompter. This administration is not big on reading things before endorsing them.

It occurs to me that the Comrade doesn't know anything beyond what's called "plantation politics." That is, you recruit or imprison a dependency, then whip them and terrorize them into supporting your lavish lifestyle, all the while spouting platitudes about how it's all "for your own good." He may be surprised to discover that there are many, many US citizens who don't regard themselves as victims and won't be slavishly happy to accept crumbs from ol' massah's table. And I'm thinking the Comrade's claim to being a bro' won't keep the African-American vote in his column next time, either.

Blacks actually have the most to lose. They finally get enough political recognition to exercise their rights, then Comrade Osama slaps them back down along with the rest of the population. Gosh, what will Oprah say?

Waxman isn't the only one who should be charged with treason. Forget the birth certificate. That's a bogus issue anyway. What we need are grounds for impeachment while there's anything left of individual liberty in the USA.