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Someone asked me the other night if I had children or if I was married, this was my answer to the question;
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From Tom Waits’ ‘Nighthawks at the Diner’
I heard this morning there is about a 90% chance that Janoct Ajda will be running for mayor again in 2010. Janoct ran in 2006. While he doesn’t really have a chance in Hell of winning, he adds a lot to the debate. This moment from a mayoral debate in 2006 proves that Janoct can be articulate when he wants to be (paraphrasing);
ROBERT KUTTNER: Rahm Emanuel, the President’s Chief of Staff, was Bill Clinton’s Political Director. And Rahm Emanuel’s take away from Bill Clinton’s failure to get health insurance passed was ‘don’t get on the wrong side of the insurance companies.’ So their strategy was cut a deal with the insurance companies, the drug industry going in. And the deal was, we’re not going to attack your customer base, we’re going to subsidize a new customer base. And that script was pre-cooked so it’s not surprising that this is what comes out the other side.
BILL MOYERS: So are you saying that this, what some call a sweetheart deal between the pharmaceutical industry and the White House, done many months ago before this fight really began, was because the drug company money in the Democratic Party?
And it looks like it is well on it’s way to become a polished turd;
WASHINGTON — After a long day of acid, partisan debate, Senate Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care system.