This is your brain on crack

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US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in a speech on the Senate floor (what once was the greatest deliberative body in the world) seems to believe that the ONLY reason to oppose a bill that no one has read is to defeat the President in his goals. That is so absurd it is laughable. But Senator Whitehouse seems to believe it.

Dear Senator Whitehouse in the spirit of Christmas let me list just 10 of the reasons for opposing either the Senate or the House bill:

1) Show me any other area of the economy where government control has improved it.
2) Look at the lines and care lapses in single payor countries.
3) I am not a fan of British teeth (thanks to the national health care system).
4) You did nothing to curtail the costs of your buddies the trial lawyers in either bill - wouldn't that help to reduce costs.
5) Have you actually read the bill?
6) Military music is to music as military justice is to justice as national health care is to health care. (Thanks to Robert Sherrill)
7) The tax increases in the bill will continue to delay full recovery in the economy.
8) The design of the Medicare panels seems to violate basic principles of separation of powers.
9) I do not want to deprive the Speaker of the House of her botox treatments.
10) According to a number of distinguished legal scholars, the bill is unconstitutional - requiring Americans to buy something for which there is no enumerated power in the Constitution. Evidently, Senator Whitehouse has also not read that document either.