Nancy Pelosi: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can, uh, find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Of course, there really is no bill, because they won’t claim ownership of the Senate bill without some ethereal fixes they assure us they’ll put in — just like Obama assured us “no mandate” during the campaign, I suppose.

Matt, I read your short piece on the health care bill at Rolling Stone and have to disagree. If this bill dies, I don’t think health care reform dies. It can’t. The current model can’t continue for long. And I don’t think mandating people buy for-profit insurance is forcing anything on the insurers they don’t very much want. I feel passing this legislation is waving a white flag to Big Business and saying, “We surrender.”

If you think people are in an uproar over gays in the military imagine what would happen with unisex barracks and showers and subsequent reports of big black men rubbing up against virginal white girls while they’re NAKED!

My point is that the importance given to sexuality in our society has never been logical so why do you expect this instance to be any different?

Also, have you noticed in all this talk about rubbing up against people it is virtually always about male sexuality. I am pretty certain that just as much ‘rubbing’ goes on in the lesbian community.

Lastly, I’m not implying that homosexuals are more likely to engage in rape. I’m implying that they are just as likely. We need to get past stereotypes and acknowledge people are people…with all the psycho-sexual illogic that entails.

But since you fallaciously bring the subject up, I completely agree with the notion that modern day Democrats are merely part of the fascist whole. As a matter of fact, I’ve been writing, quite a bit, about that very subject here: http://mk.users.sonic.net/

It’s interesting how the entire military establishment hasn’t come crashing down when hundreds of women have been raped by fellow servicemembers, but the possibility of one dude “rubbing up against another” is enough to justify segregating the service and making America less safe.

However, “Trickle Down! Step right up and get your Trickle Down Economics!” is an invalid argument. The Democratic solution is also trickle down economics: give the big banks more bailouts, and the money will trickle down to the little guy.