All that history

It's Monday and freedom is still dead. I'm sure you felt it die, as I did, late Saturday night. That sharp stabbing pain in your Liberty Gland as you felt all your blood eagles dissipate and a steep drop in the patriotoxins that stimulate your brain. Yes, health care passed the House and we're all gonna fucking die.

At least that's what I think happened. Granted I'm basing that on all the GOP's floor speeches before the bill passed, so my information might not be 100% accurate, but I'm fairly sure that's the medical process we all went through as the Democrats made sure that freedom was garroted and robots were sent back in time to rape the founding fathers. Yes, the House of Representatives stood up and said "YES! We can barely support mild, minor health reforms by the slimmest of margins!" and then proceeded to rack up injuries patting their own backs and attempting to blow themselves.

But it wasn't without complications and stories. 64 Democrats and the Republican caucus voted to strip abortion and reproductive rights out of the bill. Because, as always, a bunch of men following the moral compass of an organization that is fighting bankruptcy because of all the child rapes it covered up, know better than women about women's bodies. Isn't that always the way? 39 Democrats ended up voting against the bill, while only one Republican voted for it, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana. I guess that makes the bill "bipartisan" and we have to pretend he acted as a man of conscience, instead of what really happened: Cao coming down with an acute case of "District full of black people that Obama won by 75%" and knowing he wasn't going to have the luxury of Richard Jefferson being the most corrupt man on earth to sweep him back into power.

So history has happened: health care has passed the House. And for as disappointing as the bill was and for how even more disappointing the Senate bill will be, that's something that every Democratic or Republican President who vowed to "reform health care" wasn't able to do. Now we sit and wait for the Senate...and the conference committees....then back to each body for voting again......this is still going to be weeks and weeks and weeks an weeks until anything concrete happens. Ugh. I can imagine what the Senate deliberations are going to look like. Still....history,....mediocre, over-compromised history. That's...something.