The GOP politics of destroying the USA. Treason redefined as political standing.

It is reasonable to say the GOP Senate Republicans finally know what oppression, rejection and standing as a minority sincerely means.

Not merely a bad joke, is it? Bigotry and bias sincerely excludes success, doesn't it?

I suggest the Democrats and those effected by 'compromise' laws revisit them and decide if a better law can be passed since there is now a 51 vote majority. I am thinking specifically about any Immigration Reform that was tainted by extremist pressure due to the GOP. If there is a better Senate bill that can now pass, then do it. When the House passes their bill there can be reconciliation even though the House is stating there will be no bills going to reconciliation.

That reality is also a political position the Democrats can exploit. The country wants compromise. The House having a Republican majority, then they should pass the bills the way they want, as if they wouldn't anyway, but, the Senate now has a Democratic majority. If the House won't pass a bill because they refuse to go to reconciliation it only proves more leverage for Democrats in the elections of 2014 and beyond.

I sincerely believe the House's experiment with the budget this year and the debt ceiling will produce another of the same come January 2014. They found out what they wanted to know by experimenting with the country this year and will seek to go forward next year with confidence and determination to make it happen. They'll seek political exploitation at the time as well based on those begun in late 2013.

The Democrats and possibly the President should not wait for it all to transpire before calling for help from the citizens of this country. There is a proven record with the GOP and to that end lies the right to warn the country and ask for action to prevent such an impasse again.

Harry Reid I could kiss you along with more than one half the women in the USA.

This isn't about politics. It is about history. It is a fact, this is about history. 

No one wants to talk about the fact President Obama is an African American. No one wants to address the grievances the minority populations in the USA has against history. Supposedly, the nation is dissolving racism by not mentioning it. It is going to evaporate into the vapors of the country.

This is about the federal judiciary, right? Appointments, of course, there is a FED Chair that has to be confirmed, but, whether the media wants to recognize it or not, President Obama is seeking to promote African Americans in government. We have one Black Senator from New Jersey and he was only recently elected. I am sure Senator Booker was mentored to run.

Oppression is a funny thing. The laws can reflect equity among all the people, but, 'the practice' of equal opportunity is something very different. Oppression causes resignation of people, not necessarily surrender, but resignation to their own reality. To that end the USA is very guilty of ignoring the lack of equity in the USA of all the people. Why? Why the USA? Why not the media? Politics. It is the politics of the nation that causes the oppression of the 20th and 21st century.

The majority of the nation are Caucasian. Neoteny. What do you see when you look out on life? Yourself. That is what you see? What do we know about the way African Americans are viewed and why? This is where the media is at fault, but, we see difference, both physical and cultural and we see danger in our subconscious. If one accepts the fact racism has been extremely stubborn in the USA for reasons almost invisible, then one has to realize winning in politics means reaching out to the majority to win.

Every Republican in the country will state they aren't racist, but, yet they allow the extremism to stimulate voters to the polls. That has been going on for a long time given the fact it is only recent history Americans began to identify with African American authority.

CBS News
September 13, 2013

...More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees (click here) during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males. That far exceeds the percentages in the two-term administrations of Bill Clinton (48.1 percent) and George W. Bush (32.9 percent), according to Sheldon Goldman, author of the authoritative book "Picking Federal Judges."

"It is an absolutely remarkable diversity achievement," said Goldman, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who is only counting judges once, even if they fit more than one category....

Now, you might say 70 of SOME of his nominees simply isn't that many anyway, but, it does prove the fact President Obama has a mission in promoting the African American Brain Trust in the USA. I don't think that is a bad thing considering the assault on Voting Rights. We have witnessed the GOP actively attempting to eliminate voters to benefit their elections. Elections I might add that assaults the Middle Class, Unions and the entities that empower minorities to accumulate wealth.

So, here we are with a successful re-election of our first African American President. By every measure that should not have happened. By every measure Barack Obama should have been a figure head and token Black to the minorities and the USA should have given him only one term. However, he proved he is brilliant and not a flash in the pan. He is loyal to the Middle Class and minorities. 

There is every estimate he is not finished lining the halls of the Judiciary with minorities. I can't wait. This is the time to correct the path in the USA. It is time to place brilliant people, like himself, in places of power to carry out the same loyalty he feels. It is not empty loyalty. The USA chronically proves it could not care less about the Middle Class and minorities. The economic collapse of 2008 is proof of the disregard to our people. Our vulnerable people. So, we need minorities though out the county to hear cases and be loyal to the law and best outcomes of people rarely placed in priority.

Todd J. Gilman

23 November 2013

...To put that another way: The Congressional Record never forgets. (click here)

“It is simply intolerable for a partisan minority to block a bipartisan majority from conducting the nation’s business,” one senator declared in the midst of ongoing partisan warfare over a president’s long-blocked judicial nominees. “It is intolerable that the standards now change depending on who is in the White House and which party is the majority party in the Senate.”

Two days later, the same senator returned to the Senate floor to promote the exact idea Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid executed last week: holding a majority vote to change Senate rules, ending the use of filibusters to block nominations.

“We are talking about treating presidents who have won national elections with the respect they deserve,” he said.

That was May 2005. On Thursday, that same senator — Texan John Cornyn, now the deputy GOP leader — denounced Reid’s maneuver as “a raw exercise of partisan political power.”

In both parties, nearly every senator in office more than five years has been both for and against the nuclear option.

Here’s a certain Democrat warning Republicans in April 2005 “to think about the implications of what has been called the nuclear option.”

Voters, he said, expect both disagreement and cooperation in Congress. But “what they do not expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.”...

The reaction has been comical to say the least.

The Senate has been 'keeping score.' Like what? Somehow keeping score of the number of federally appointed judges by Democrats and Republicans justified the filibuster. 

I don't think so.

Keeping score, do you believe that? 370 GOP appointees and 370 Democratic appointees and more than 70 positions still open. Excuse me?

Why is there more than 70 positions open? GOP politics. Not the keeping score part either. SMALL GOVERNMENT was being imposed on the people of the USA though the judiciary. 70 courts are absent of judges. Does the judiciary work well with 70 non-functioning courts? I wouldn't think so. Not only that, but, when one looks at some of the decisions they are obviously partisan. 

If that trend continued as it was being enforced by McConnell where would our Supreme Court Justices be coming from? How do we insure having a range of choices to place in our higher courts if there are dearly few to choose from. The entire issue is hideous. The democracy we tout as free was being deprived of our judicial appointees to enforce small government and limit choices in the future to the Supreme Court. You talk about control, holy smokes.

So, Mitch McConnell obviously took advise from FOX News. "Fair and Balanced." 370 on each side of the courts. How negligent is that? How could a Congressional Senate leader actually justify his actions? He endangered the country both today and the future.

There will be nice outcomes to the Senate now. The filibuster was actually feeding the Tea Party. Of course, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul sued the Senate floor for their political constituencies, but, it is more than that. A sixty vote majority required recruiting all the Democrats and a few Republicans in order to pass legislation. That is stacking the odds against Republicans to face a primary runoff and Democrats to face a general election challenge. The Senate Vote is suppose to reflect what is considered best for the country, not pressure on Senators to carry the day and sacrifice their careers in the process.

The Senate is not suppose to be at war with each other. That is McConnell was doing. He was forcing his Republican colleagues to make silly decisions rather than decisions that benefited the country. McConnell was not only acting against the people of the nation, but, his own political party. He was forcing extremism in his own political ranks. 

Now, all the Senators can vote according to their priorities of what is important to move the nation forward. The actions by the majority of the Senate to remove the filibuster will remove the extremism currently at work in the Senate. Democrats and the Republicans willing to sign on to a bill in the face of a very hostile GOP political environment can now vote as they want to rather than as demanded of them.

So, now that it is finally done, I congratulate Senator Majority Leader Reid. He acted bravely and with commit to the future and making it a stronger country; rather than simply waving the white flag all the time to an extremist GOP unable to act in favor of the country's best outcomes. 

President Obama is a great President. He is finally ending the Civil War and placing equity in the country for minorities and women. We are lucky to have him as President.

Did I miss anything important?

Perhaps I should tell you.

It's Sunday Night

Voting Doesn't Work by Corporate Avenger (click here)

Voting doesn't work, 1-2-3 
It's time you know your enemy 
I won't pledge allegiance to hypocrisy 
Your democracy, is not for me 
So when we try to change this place 
Courtroom pulls an about face 
Fantasies of the master race 
Our elections they erase 
See once upon a time we were all free 
When we lived in tribal societies 
Peace, peace and harmony 
And everything for the good of family 
Yeah cancer people can't smoke weed 
People voted to be free 
But the facist rule decree 
Pigs arresting you and me 

(chorus) 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 

President this, president that 
Represent the ruling class 
One says this (this) one says that (that) 
Sounds the same, what choice is that 
See, voting doesn't work 1-2-3 
Coming from the nation of the Cherokee 
How can you choose when you don't have a choice 
How can you choose when you don't have a voice 
Yeah, interest games, their interest rates 
Secret power fueled by hate (hate) 
Fear for cash 
Cash for fear 
Greenspan is the ruler here 
Yeah, a pig is a pig 
And they took it away 
And I don't give a fuck about the things they say 
It don't mean shit to me 
Voting doesn't work it's easy to see that 

Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work. why? 
When they don't like what we say, then they stop it in the courts 

Voting doesn't work I have seen 
Along with piles of broken treaties 
Your reality produces poverty, spiritually in a nation of greed 
Well, who is working, who is not 
Think votes count, well I think not 
Doesn't matter what we say 
Things will always go their way 
Power to the people is just a fantasy 
And they sell to us as an american dream 
Power to the people is just a fantasy 
And they sell to us as an american dream 
Well your vote counts 1-2-3 
Living in democracy 
Everybody here is free 
'Cause it's built for you and it's built for me 

Voting doesn't work, why 
When they don't like what we say they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work, why 
When they don't like what we say they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work, why 
When they don't like what we say they stop it in the courts 
Voting doesn't work, why 
When they don't like what we say they stop it in the courts

I will be away for at least two days and have no plans of being on the net during that time.

I hope the Senate debate regarding reforms to protect our soldiers from any sexual assault goes well. The votes are there to pass the Gillibrand amendment and it should be given the dignity of a democratic process.

I hope the US House finds the will to actually pass a Budget with a Debt Ceiling increase, too. They need to concentrate on creating jobs without cutting the national budget. Austerity doesn't work.

And there is an opportunity to turn the 2010 elections around in 2014. The tragedy occurring with Middle Class since 2010 is a crime. It certainly isn't American. So, with 38 states having Gubernatorial elections in 2014, we can turn the assault on the Middle Class around at the state level. I think that is the real challenge of the Democratic Party. The House seats are important, but, until gerrymandering can be overcome there are a few seats that are sincerely available for Democratic gains.

I hope some of the ideas on the blog make you smile and certainly make you think.

Until later....

Seven years in preparation, a major accomplishment for this zoo.

• Przewalski’s horses have never been tamed for riding, which means that they are the last truly wild horse in existence today.
• Przewalski's horses have 66 chromosomes, two more than domestic horses. (click here)

The Colorado DNC needs to start lawsuits against those seeking to destabilize the Colorado State Government.

November 14, 2013 10:47 PM

While Colorado politics (click here) have inspired its fair share of hard fought and down right dirty races, by national standards, we play pretty fair. Whenever I’ve figured that I’ve seen it all in a Colorado election, a non-Colorado native quickly reminds me that politics is a game played at a far dirtier level in other cities, usually out east....

...Obviously, the Hudak recall effort represents much higher stakes considering the results of the recalls of John Morse and Angela Giron. Not only is success more likely in a competitive district like Hudak’s, but the balance of power in the Colorado Senate is at stake....

...So by that theory, if major balance of power issues are at risk, then do the gloves come off at this level? If so, this may become the new normal for Colorado politics....

How to destroy a Middle Class in a few easy steps.

TUESDAY OCT 22, 2013 2:50 PM
BY MICHELLE CHEN

...Since Bain took over (click here) in 2007, workers say, labor conditions on the sales floor have eroded under a pay structure based on commissions. According to employees, because base pay has started as low as $7.25 an hour, often without paid vacation or sick days, these commissions constitute a major portion of workers’ income. But this commission on sales kicks in only after reaching a certain minimum threshold—a system known as "fading." Another major frustration for workers has been a lack of autonomy; they say non-sales duties that the Bain management has heaped on them detract from cultivating sales clients. Moreover, a relatively flat wage structure means workers who work their way up the management chain do not receive comparable pay increases....

Musical executives.

By Bloomberg News
November 19, 2013 at 3:45 PM
updated November 19, 2013 at 4:10 PM

Prudential Financial, (click here) the second-largest U.S. life insurer, hired Robert Cignarella as co-head of global leveraged finance from Goldman Sachs Group.

Cignarella will join in January and help oversee more than $33 billion, including bank loans and high-yield bonds in the U.S. and Europe, the Newark-based company said today in a statement. He’ll work with Paul Appleby, a managing director and the current head of Prudential Fixed Income’s leveraged finance team.

“Rob’s more than 20 years of experience and insight in leveraged finance will be a valuable addition in leading our investment management efforts,” Appleby said in the statement.

Chief Executive Officer John Strangfeld, 59, is bolstering Prudential’s asset-management businesses to expand fee income, a strategy also pursued by rivals including MetLife and Principal Financial Group. Prudential Fixed Income had about $397 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, compared with $232 billion at the end of 2009.

What? Not Bain Capital?

By Devin Banerjee & Ian Katz - Nov 17, 2013 11:28 AM ET

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (click here) is joining private-equity firm Warburg PincusLLC after a quarter-century career in public service that was capped by his oversight of financial crisis rescues of Wall Street banks and General Motors Corp.

Geithner, 52, will become president at the New York-based buyout firm starting March 1 and help manage the company, its investment funds and client communications, Warburg Pincus said yesterday in a statement. He will work with Chip Kaye and Joe Landy, who have led the firm since 2000 and this year began sharing the title of co-chief executive officer....

By Devin Banerjee - Nov 7, 2013 7:30 AM ET

Warburg Pincus LLC said Scott Arenare, (click here) who joined the private-equity firm as general counsel in 1998, is leaving for a new business opportunity....

 ..Arenare was a member of Warburg Pincus’s executive-management group, (click here) focusing on legal, regulatory and compliance matters, according to a biography on the firm’s website.

Arenare’s tenure “spanned both the strong growth of our firm globally and an era of great change in the private-equity business,” Chip Kaye, Warburg Pincus’s co-chief executive officer, said in the statement.

Warburg Pincus, founded in 1966, oversees about $35 billion in assets and owns stakes in more than 125 companies. Kewsong Lee, a veteran deal maker who had been at Warburg for 21 years, was hired earlier this week as deputy chief investment officer at Carlyle Group LP (CG), where he will report to co-founder Bill Conway.

November 18, 2013 12:32 PM ET

Mr. Scott A. Arenare (click here) is currently on the Board of the Law Alumni Association. He was a Managing Director and General Counsel at Warburg Pincus LLC since 1998. Mr. Arenare spent 15 years at the firm. He joined the firm in 1998 and focused on legal, regulatory and compliance matters. Previously, Mr. Arenare served as a General Counsel at the firm and coordinated legal and administrative matters for the firm. Prior to this, he was an Attorney in the Corporate and Securities Law department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. Mr. Arenare served on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal and is currently on the Board of Visitors. He also holds a J.D. degree from the Duke University School of Law (Mr. Scott A. Arenare '89). Mr. Arenare holds a B.A. degree in Political Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

One of President Obama's least noticed accomplishments.

Daniel Scherzer, an emergency medicine physician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, explains proper EpiPen use to a group of students.

...The law, (click here) which President Barack Obama signed Wednesday, provides financial incentives for states to pass laws allowing schools to stock epinephrine and treat children who do not have a prescription for the drug. States with such laws on the books will now be eligible for grants to stock their schools with EpiPens or other forms of injectable epinephrine, Denny said....

Beagle says only three polar bear cubs next year.

Beagle's nose predicts few U.S. polar bear cubs this year (click here)

Baby's First Steps at the National Zoo of the 3 month old Panda cub.

The movement to stop the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement is taking shape.

Kindly remember, early this year or last President Bush made a major speech about the US military's change in focus to the Pacific theater. That decision was make in 2008 before Bush left office.

Pacific Rim » (click here) Representatives from 12 nations begin new round of negotiations over free-trade deal at Salt Lake City’s Grand America.

First Published Nov 19 2013 02:33 pm 
Last Updated Nov 19 2013 09:54 pm

...The talks were closed.

And that concerns critics most of all as parties from the Trans-Pacific Partnership launched a 19th round of negotiations — this time in Utah — in search of a sweeping free-trade agreement.

Tuesday’s rally, organized by a coalition called the Citizens Trade Campaign, of Washington, D.C., drew 100 or so protesters, who allege that the high-level talks have been conducted behind closed doors with only multinational corporations given access to proposed provisions.

Carol Guthrie, senior adviser for media affairs of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, which is negotiating for the United States, said participation by outside groups has been much greater than protesters claim....

38 Governorships to be decided in 2014.

By Paul Kane

Wednesday, November 20, 3:09 PM

ALTOONA, Iowa — Gov. Terry Branstad (R) (click here) brought one of his party’s shining stars to this presidential crucible last Saturday night before nearly 800 important Iowa Republicans, stoking speculation that the guest, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), was testing the 2016 waters.

But moments after Ryan’s speech, Branstad nixed any thought that the 2012 vice presidential nominee should be his party’s next standard bearer. “Leadership is gonna come out of the states, not Washington. Look at the governors,” Branstad said in an interview....

Senator Cronyn stated the National Institutes of Health is organized with the military structure.

He stated the NIH has to be removed from military funding. 

Huh?

There have been studies on behalf of the US military conducted by NIH, but, it's funding is dependent on the US military budget, so I don't understand that complaint at all. 

NIH Budget (click here)

RESEARCH FOR THE PEOPLE

The NIH invests over $30.9* billion annually in medical research for the American people.

More than 80% of the NIH's funding is awarded through almost 50,000 competitive grants to more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 universities, medical schools, and other research institutions in every state and around the world.

About 10% of the NIH's budget supports projects conducted by nearly 6,000 scientists in its own laboratories, most of which are on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

NIH History (click here)

The National Institutes of Health traces its roots to 1887, when a one-room laboratory was created within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS), predecessor agency to the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)....

December 23, 2011——The Breast Cancer Stamp Reauthorization Act reauthorizes the breast cancer stamp through December 2015. Seventy percent of the proceeds from the stamp would be provided to NIH and the remainder to support breast cancer research funded by the Department of Defense. (P.L. 112-80)

Within the history of the NIH there have been appropriations from the DOD to carry out research. So, the idea the NIH has to be defunded and moved out of the military structure is pure hatred of the common good.

The military belongs to the people of this country. NOT Senators and Representatives with an affection for the power it carries in the world.

Women have a right to a military career Rape and sexual assault can cause PTSD Fact not fiction Enough said

I am impressed by the passion of Senator Grassley speaking on the Senate floor. He strongly believes in the legislation regarding sexual assault. 

I happen to agree with him. He stated exactly what are my thoughts. He said and I am paraphrasing, 'Will we have a military of predators or decent and dedicated people that are loyal and respectful friends and partners in a unit?" That is what this comes down to. I am bothered that the USA military has become a haven for sexual predators.

There is no reason to keep sexual predators among the ranks of the US military. They belong in the civil courts for trial and penalty. The civil courts do not take false reporting lightly either, it is called "Malicious Prosecution." The civil courts can hold all parties accountable and brings brevity to these issues, that is not the case in the military courts. The military courts are always bargaining with their own priorities over penalty of crime.

I want the military cleaned up and we will have a better morale for our soldiers and people that sincerely care about each other.

In listening to the opposition to the Gillibrand Amendment, this is a generational issue. The Gillibrand Amendment is cutting edge. It is needed. Those like Senator McCain can't see his way forward with this amendment because of his experience in the military. A lot of time has passed from those days. While I am sure based in his understanding of the military, there has been a lot of opportunity for the leadership to correct the course within command structure and they haven't. No one can dismiss the experience of the people that came forward, quite bravely I might say, to testify. Things have to change. Those opposed to this amendment should not obstruct it's passage as there is a clear majority in the Senate to pass it. I might point out if the opposition takes a sincere look at their minority, it is somewhat absent of the younger members of that governing body. 

The opposition to the Gillibrand amendment needs to allow passage. The military command is mute. They had their chance to actually make the right choices all along the way and they haven't. I found Senator Boxer's statements compelling. The lax enforcement of law in the military is systemic and that is not acceptable anymore. I am disappointed in Senator Ayotte because she is obviously mentored by The Old World structure and guided by her experience as an attorney. She abandons those that testified and makes a stand of her own and not that of the fact of the record. 

How very nice. They really all are extraordinary people.

November 20, 2013

...The recipients (click here) this year include former president Bill Clinton, Country music legend Loretta Lynn, renowned women's rights activist Gloria Steinem and television icon Oprah Winfrey.

Obama said this year's honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent. But he said what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world....

I am so happy Gloria Steinem was honored. It means a great deal to me. 

Bill Clinton is a no brainer. He and Hillary both have committed their lives to this country. There is no equivalent to their long standing dedication to freedom and promoting the USA around the world. 

I am delighted the arts and sports are included in the metal awards. Loretta Lynn is precious and has always been a delight. It is a great group of Americans that have demonstrated character through their entire lives and they are from many walks of life. Very nice.

The Supreme Court was predictable in the Texas decision and the split.

November 19, 2013, 8:01 PM

A sharply divided Supreme Court (click here) on Tuesday allowed Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state's clinics to stop providing abortions.

The justices voted 5-4 to leave in effect a provision requiring doctors who perform abortions in clinics to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

The court's conservative majority refused the plea of Planned Parenthood and several Texas abortion clinics to overturn a preliminary federal appeals court ruling that allowed the provision to take effect.

The four liberal justices dissented....

I don't really see the actions of the court yesterday as a defeat. There are four Justices always willing to hear the health needs of women and three of the four are women, one would think that 'female reality' within the court would make an impression on the others, but, evidently not. 

Justice Scalia stated the obvious. The Appeals Court stated there is a good chance Texas will win the appeal. That was what the five justices ruled on. They didn't consider the status of the clinics if they were forced to close and possibly not able to reopen if they won the lawsuit. The five Justices upheld the statement by the Appeals Court. Open and shut. No debate, no contemplation, just a simple ruling based on that one Appeals Court decision.

The case will most probably go before the Supreme Court when the Appeals Court rules whether favoring Texas or the clinics. So, the Supreme Court is not finished with this Texas law.

The burden falls to the clinics in proving safety and undue and burdensome law in Texas opposed to the well being of women that seek these services at the clinics. That is the unfortunate truth about our judicial system, the private sector does not have unlimited resources to regain it's standing after being targeted for political abuse.

Texas, in recent years, have been suffering under a tarnished Right Wing image because it was the state of Roe v. Wade. That is why the push to eliminate abortion from any possibility in Texas. It is a political disgrace to the Republicans in Texas to carry the banner of Roe v. Wade.

Change doesn't come easy.

In all honesty, when this health care law is fully implemented it is going to reduce the number of complaints the State Insurance Commissioners receive from their citizens. I am sure there were many days when commissioners go home wishing there was an Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They probably have plenty of nightmare stories from citizens. I would not under estimate the long term benevolence of the law. 

As a matter of fact, I hope this law increases the number of mental health beds across the country. The law increases the importance of mental health care and the compensation for it. We witnessed yesterday the profound need for those beds.