Nearly Four Million Citizens to Pay Health Insurance Penalty By 2016

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -- Albert Einstein

No, I am not shocked as I know you are not either. However, what does enrage me is that all the ignoramuses that claimed this fascist health care plan would be a descending gift from the heavens REFUSED to read the actual bill.  However, let us look at the picture from a broader perspective:  Who is really to blame for this bill?  Obviously the already dying Republican Party and, more specifically, Mitt Romney. In fact, it was the "limited government, low spending, pro civil liberties" GOP that was responsible for proposing something similar in the 90s.  No wonder their objections this time around were too little, too late.

YAL at the University of California-San Deigo

The newly updated chapter at USCD conducted a protest of Nancy Pelosi and her policy choices. I will let Ankur Chawla, the new YAL chapter president,  explain the feeling of the day:

The Nancy Pelosi protest up in Irvine, CA was our first real event as an official UCSD-YAL club.  It was funny because we had an officer meeting the day before where we kind of spontaneously decided to drive up to Irvine with some SDSU-YAL students for the Nancy Pelosi protest as a celebration to kick start our club approval.

When we got to the hotel where the protest was taking place, we met John Dennis, Pelosi's opponent in the 2010 elections.

And boy oh boy was the protest growing.  People were showing up by the droves.  There was so much support at the protest that it really gave me a good feeling about the things us "little people" can accomplish if we stand together.  There must have been upwards of 300 people surrounding the hotel, all yelling as policemen wearily eyed and even took video footage of the protest.

House Dems: CIA Withheld Secrets

From the New York Times: Seven House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee wrote that the CIA had misled them over the past 8 years.

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas, referred to Mr. Panetta’s disclosure in a letter to the committee’s ranking Republican, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, Congressional Quarterly reported on Wednesday. Mr. Reyes wrote that the committee “has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one occasion) was affirmatively lied to.”

I'll give credit where credit is due; it's a good thing that the House Democrats are voicing opposition to government secrecy. After all, it's better than what Obama is doing:

In a related development, President Obama threatened to veto the pending Intelligence Authorization Bill if it included a provision that would allow information about covert actions to be given to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees

Wow. Makes you wonder what happened to all that talk of change, huh?

But if the members of Congress in this article really wanted change, they'd advocate for the transparency of not only the CIA, but the Fed too. None of the three Democrats mentioned in the article, Representatives Holt, Reyes, and Pelosi, are co-sponsors of H.R. 1207, Ron Paul's Federal Reserve Transparency Act.