Affordable Care Act Classes

Dear Senator McConnell:

Just heard on the local news a clip of you speaking to a group at Hardin Memorial Hospital this morning. Once again, you mentioned the 2300 page bill, as though that is too much for anyone to expect you to read and comprehend. That's fine. We know you are lazy and you have whined about the burden of having to do your job for so long this is not surprise.

But, you added to that statement, "2300 page bill that nobody understands." This is a lie, and you know it is a lie. Many of us have read and do understand the bill. If you want to admit that you are a lazy fool, at least you are being somewhat honest for a change. You do not have permission to try and make the rest of us look like fools with you. That is disgusting and totally unacceptable.

Here are a few links that might help you.

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/full/index.html  (Site contains the entire bill as well as simple explanations that even you might be able to comprehend. Again, if you can't read, my grandchildren will come read it to you.

https://class.coursera.org/healthpolicy-2012-001/wiki/index University of Pennsylvania offers a free class: Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act

A good leader would know this bill inside and out and would be able to explain it so that his constituents would understand.

Sandy

Senator McConnell on 1st Amendment - Rip Rinehart

Actual email from Mitch McConnell! Not satire from The Onion! Senator Mitch, or as he apparently now prefers, "Leader McConnell," gave a rousing speech last week to the corporate-friendly American Enterprise Institute. He defended the infamous Citizens United decision that is rapidly finishing off the last shreds of American democracy, and railed against proposals to require corporations and unions to disclose how they fund political advertising.

No big surprises there. Dear Leader McConnell knows where his bread is buttered, as they say.

But here's the hilarious part: he's calling his defense of Big Money and Super PACs a "full-throated defense of the First Amendment," and characterizing Democratic efforts to at least lift the viel of secrecy from the whole sordid thing as "bullying and intimidation tactics to silence conservative groups critical of the President's policies."

Oh, Mitch. Sometimes you just slay me with your wacky hijinx. You ARE kidding, aren't you?

Rip Rinehart