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This week we are all over the place. From liberal Tea Partiers to supper ninjas we got you covered.

Liberal Tea:

It wasn’t long ago when the now famous Tea Party was born. As it has grown, the movement has largely positioned itself to the right than the traditional Republican party. Now it seems the Tea Party folks may be too liberal for America.

Take Rand Paul the Tea Partier in Kentucky who is now the Republican candidate for Senate.  A new Public Policy Poll finds that more Republicans think he too liberal than too conservative.

Frankenstein:

Ever wanted to play God? Well scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute are playing at it. They have succeeded in creating a synthetic life form. The process took 15 years and $30 million. What did they create? Bacteria.

You might think that for 30 mil they could do a little better than giving us a new strain of the flu.

Ninja Vigilantes:

A mugging in Australia was stymied this week by a gallivanting group of ninjas. The brilliant muggers chose to carry out their crime right outside a ninja school. The ninjas who witnessed the attack, rushed to save the victim and proceeded to scare the bejesus out of the assailants.

Nelson The Ancient:

Comedians love to make old people jokes about John McCain but what about Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson? Nelson recently admitted to the world that he has never used an ATM.

What will come next? Angrily shaking his fist at kids who come on his laws, watching Jeopardy, yelling at clouds?

Speaking of which here is our Weekly Caption Contest!

The Simpsons

What would you (or Sen. Nelson) be saying to that no good cloud. Leave us your caption suggestions or we will shake our fists at you!

Senator Nelson will make us all smile if Health care is sorted out

For months and months and months and MONTHS, the nation has suffered through a never-ending health care debate.

Thankfully, we at USDemocrazy have decent health coverage. This is fortunate as we are suffering from aneurysms, ulcers, night sweats, strokes, and convulsions (due in large part to our general lack of exercise, caused by our non-stop monitoring of the health care debate).

But today, we can boldly announce there might be a tentative chance of an unconfirmed possibility that the Health care debate will (kinda/sorta/maybe)  be all over!

Yes! The news of the day is if the Senate stays on its current track they will pass health care legislation by Christmas! Hooray!

But that’s not the end. (you really thought this was going to end?)

The Senate bill has to be reconciled (ie, merged) with a previous version passed by the the House of Representatives. This can be tricky.  If the House tries to liberalize the merged bill, conservative Dems in the Senate might withdraw their support. Then we’ll be back to square one.

To get the bill out of Santa’s workshop and wrapped up by Christmas will require the support of either Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, or Republican Olympia Snowe.

However, neither is anxious to jump on board.

Nelson’s objection centers on abortion, while Snowe claims she will not have enough time to read the bill (maybe we should pitch in and get her hooked on phonics to help out).

Of course, this is all assuming the liberal members of Congress do not abandon the bill. They are angry over the many compromises concessions that have been in order to win over conservative Democrats.

So with all the sincerity we can muster USDemocrazy would like to make a Christmas wish.

Please, Congress… Solve Health Care… then you can move on to the next divisive, partisan, and ultimately nauseating topic to endlessly debate.