Infants Against Health Reform (IAHR)
Good Lord. GOP Congressman John Shadeeg just used the ultimate prop in his floor statement, hoisting six-month-old Maddie and telling his colleagues that the infant opposes the current health reform bill because, among other things, "she wants choices in her health care." What a precocious little tyke. Maybe she could tackle immigration reform while she's at it? "Maddie doesn't want an illegal Ecuadorian nanny. She wants choices in her day care, but only from red-blooded American workers."
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Thanks, Amy. You made my day. No blue-blooded nannies? Or if Real Americans, must they be Native Americans? Everyone else here has ancestries from elsewhere. And if the toddler wants choice (for what? breast milk, formula, or fruit juice?), there's always the PO, yes?
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I'm not as close to these people as you seem to be Amy. Who is Maddie and what does she know at 6 months old about Ecuador?
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LOL@gysgt
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Maybe she attends the same institution of higher learning at the pre-school / day care that Amy and cfukara attend.
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" .. Who is Maddie.."
A dangerous person who masquerades as a 6-month old.
[Remember the story of a god masquerading as a kid born to some wayward teen ... This is the anti-god .... start off by yanking HC from poor grandma ..] -
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...any baby switchouts, teen births, or fake preggers conspiracies here?
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And then the courts will take over from there: She wants to divorce her parents.
This is serious.
[Hey, that kid doesn't like the USA! Who has she been talking to secretly, in code, that we don't know about! She is guilty of sedition and treason and all things bad ... Raise the red alert! SWAT! ..] -
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Amy, more kudos, in this case for highlighting Shadeeg's media training at the Sarah Palin School of Public Elations and Liberal Media Handing Also, you betcha. Especially the part of using your newborns as stage props without them burping up stuff while on camera.
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Amy, is Shadeeg now changing Maddie's diaper on the Floor and calling it “change you can believe in”?
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The video of Shadeeg with Maddie.
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Shadegg's video doesn't show what happens next: Members were reminded not to bring “guests” to the microphones, and Energy and Commerce Chair Henry Waxman joked that the baby was “a ventriloquist.”
http://www.politico.com/livepulse/1109/A_7montholds_view.html?showall
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…thank you, lizzie, another great clip. I was wondering what happened next… well, it was NOT uncomfy grumbling and coughing from the floor as Shadegg turns back to the mic. “Sorry, Madame Speaker, Maddie just dropped a bomb on the House Floor.” Price leaps up, “I object! …phew” and Boehner whispers, “Uh, Tom, John's one of us.” “Oh, sorry, my bad, force of habit. Nice tan, still hitting the carrots again? …and why are those two hot women from TIME staring at me like I don't like chicks or something?” (Boehner's website now tells us how to pronounce his name, finally.) Hang in there, Amy and Jay. They'll be done someday and then you can hit the clubs for late drinks.
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I'm either in a good mood or that was excellent snark. Maybe both. Good catch, Amy.
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LOWER THE VOTING AGE! LOL.
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Yet Republicans freaked out when Graeme Frost (12) gave the radio address supporting SCHIP.
I guess using children as props is OK if they are literally props.
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Did anybody else see the horror movie "The Orphan"? Maddie is her younger sister. She's really a psychotic 21 year old after Shadegg's husband. Run Shadegg, run!
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