1 This kind of stuff, seriously, makes me want to commit random acts of self-mutilation. Pencils in eyes, paperclips in ears, walking on hot coals... WTH?! They are hurrying this along b/c they know the recession (if they stop all the doom & gloom, apocalypse now talk) will begin to right itself in the very near future. It is government meddling that brought us to this point & it will certainly not be government meddling that rights the situation. I feel a closer connection to those "crazy" colonists who left England behind & then fought for their freedom with every passing day.

2 Well, if they really want to be seen as just “doing something” no matter if it’s right or wrong, may I suggest mass suicide of all those who voted in favor of this crap.(Man, talk about record ratings for C-Span…) There's some Hope/Change I could get behind.

3 Mass suicide, Tim? How ironic. Who's more alive, you or us? Unlike you laissez-faire, lazy fat cat Republicans, we are aktive. We mesmerize the public with our dynamism! Why do you think they vote for us? They don't want boring old white males who look back to the lame capitalist past. No, they want the cOlOrful vanguard of the sOci@list future, confidently leaping into the abyss. So what if we take down the whole country with us? We'll rise again. We are rich. We are smart. We are rich because we're smart. Let the dumb, bitter God-'n'-gun-clingers sink to the bottom where they belong. They don't deserve to be ikwo. Nothing for them means more pork* for us! *Vegan halal pseudopork, of course.

4 Rambling, cryptically, nonsensical bullsh*t. Perfect, just like the reasoning and justification for the bill. Hope/Change? Naw, furget dat, it be Dope/Range...all ready on the right, all ready on the left...bullseye! Right between your freakin' eyes.