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The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins – Sung by Leonard Nimoy (1968)

Something tells me I’m glad I wasn’t born until the 70’s

And he is only 10 years old.

I must see this…

Video from C-Span of the Health Care Summit in it’s entirety.

Morning Session.

From Rock for Equality

Number of Jobs Lost

From data at the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Here are a couple of videos of Rachel Maddow, pointing out more of the Outbreak of Hypocrisy in Washington.

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While Americans continue to struggle making ends meet with unemployment hovering around 10%, health care bills and bad home loans driving main street into bankruptcy, Washington continues to play games with our lives and our futures.

Democrats continue to negotiate away the best parts of health care reform while giving into the worst demands of the the Republicans and lobbyists.

Republicans continue to make demands for certain things and then turn 180 degrees and oppose those things when Democrats concede to them.

It’s enough to make a person want to pull out their hair and cry “Uncle”, which it appears that Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana has done in declaring on short notice and without warning Democratic leaders ahead of time, that he will not run for Re-election in this year. In his announcement speech yesterday, he took several well deserved pot shots at his Senate colleagues.

I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

Two weeks ago, the Senate voted down a bipartisan commission to deal with one of the greatest threats facing our nation: our exploding deficits and debt,

Just last week, a major piece of legislation to create jobs — the public’s top priority — fell apart amid complaints from both the left and right.

And this morning he told Good Morning America

There’s just too much brain-dead partisanship, tactical maneuvering for short-term political advantage rather than focusing on the greater good, and also just strident ideology, The extremes of both parties have to be willing to accept compromises from time to time to make some progress because some progress for the American people is better than nothing, and all too often recently, we’ve been getting nothing,

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