Health Care, Health Care, Health Care

The bill is online. 72-hour promise means the vote comes Sunday.

Deep Thought: I wonder how many Republicans are going to complain about scheduling health care vote on the day we are supposed to reserve for the Lord?

*Update:

That didn't take long.

Steve King (R-IA) — speaking with Fox News host Glenn Beck on his radio show this morning — said the timing of the vote is unholy. He warned that Democrats intend to “take away the liberty that we have right from God” on “the Sabbath, during Lent.” Beck agreed, calling the Sunday vote an “affront to God,” and something “our founders would have never” done “[o]ut of respect for God”

The Founding Fathers could have cared less about Sunday or for that matter about Jesus-centric Christianity. Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11:

As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

And here's one of our greatest Founding Father's thoughts on not only the focus of Sunday but the main facet of Christianity:

"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!-- John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

And Benjamin Franklin, maybe the greatest Founding Father, didn't even believe in Jesus:

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion...has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the Truth with less trouble."