Obamacare, Senator Baucus style, weighs in at over 1500 pages! From the story:
Senate Finance Committee members have been notified that the committee’s health reform bill was filed today. S. 1796 weighs in at 1,502 pages… Read the entire 1,502 page Finance bill…
It’s important to remember that the bill won’t exist in this form for long. Senate Majority Leader Reid and Sens. Max Baucus and Chris Dodd along with senior White House aides are merging the Finance and Health Committee legislation into one bill that will be considered on the floor of the Senate. The behind-closed-doors dealings have drawn criticism from Republicans, particularly because President Obama had promised a transparent process and pledged to negotiate the health care bill on C-SPAN.
That’s up almost 500 pages from the House bill. If this keeps up, by the time Senator Reid and the others in the non smoke filled back room decide what the real Senate bill will be–is this process anti democratic, or is it anti democratic?–it may weigh in at over 2000 pages. I thought we were supposed to be fighting obesity!
October 20th, 2009 | 8:28 am
Wesley: the image of Mr. Creosote from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” is not in the public domain. I doubt that the copyright owners would care to see it used in connection with your articles. Do you have their permission to use it?
October 20th, 2009 | 3:26 pm
Fair use, History Writer. And if there is a problem, they can take it up with Google Images.
October 21st, 2009 | 3:32 pm
Wesley:
Fair use cases distinguish between using a work in order to poke fun at or comment on the work itself (parody) and using a copyrighted work to poke fun at or comment on some other matter (satire). Courts have been less willing to grant fair use protections to satire than to parody, and your use of the Python material clearly falls into the former category. We might put it to a test by asking the BBC for its opinion. What do you think?
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