Healthcare

Well they have done it. Through catcalls, misinformation, rallies, death panels, town hall meetings and endless talk on blogs, radio and television news America has Healthcare. Is that hyperbole? Yes it is. Is it important? Probably more than any of us know. Am I totally happy with the bill? Not really. It doesn't go far enough it isn't perfect and it is too much of a patch work. But it something, a bill, an idea, a framework to build on. I sit here watching coverage of this and it is very late for me-I need to be up in five and one half hours roughly-and there is more to do. They have to consider a motion, parliamentary procedures and another vote on a bill that would recognize the Senate reconciliation bill. But it's all over but the crying. It wouldn't have got this far if the Democrats didn't have the votes and know all the road blocks that the opposition would attempt to throw up.

Hell maybe, most likely for a brief time, I'll be proud to be an American again.