Perhaps the HCR bill should include a provision for prostitution as therapeutic treatment. Policy riders that include this provision could be taxed with the Boehner Tax. Who knows, there is probably more than a few Rethugs who would have to give serious thought to throwing their support to such a concept.

You don't achieve Boehner's lovely orange shading from a tanning bed. It's either spray-on, or more likely a cheap rub-it-on-at-home product. So Boehner won't be affected by the new tax.

Perhaps the HCR bill should include a provision for prostitution as therapeutic treatment.

Nay,It would be better to legalize prostitution so that it too could be taxed.

We could call it the Appalachian Hiking Taxâ„¢.

There could also be a Mistress Taxâ„¢....with this one, congressional GOP caucus would just about pay for the subsidizing of 30 million folks into private insurance by themselves.

Actually, I note that Debbie Wassermann Schultz has much the same skin coloration as Boehner. Admittedly, she's from Florida, but as much time as she spends in DC, you'd think her tan would fade.

(I just don't like ad hominem comments, no matter who they're directed at. They don't advance the discussion. I don't like it when wingnuts do it and I don't like it when Keith Olberman does it.)

"I just don't like ad hominem comments, no matter who they're directed at"
KathrynH on December 19, 2009 at 2:16 PM

My Latin may be a bit rusty (read: nonexistent), but IIRC, "hominem" applies only to people -- actual human beings?
Not entirely clear to me that *any* Publican now -- and especially Boehner and a few others in particular -- aren't demonic entities, or at the very least demon-possessed (or, as I think some of the evangelicals might put it, "in-dwelt"). What else could fully explain their behavior of late? (Well, maybe some LSD in the Publican party punch-bowl... )
In all seriousness (not to imply that the above wasn't entirely serious), I understand that there's old saying, also in Latin, that still survives as a principle in law, something to the effect of, "If you'll lie about one thing, you'll lie about anything." If an ostensible professional adult can't even bring himself to show his real, unadulterated skin to the world...
(And the Villagers say it's Democrats that lack "authenticity"!)

Can it really be considered ad hominem when it is fact? "Joe Lieberman would have happily pull the levers for the gas chambers in Nazi death camps because if he's not betraying and murdereing people, he cannot reach orgasm" could be seen as an ad hominem attack, but it also happens to be a 100% accurate description of him. So, is a statement of fact an "attack"? If I said it was really, freaking cold outside, have I committed an ad hominem attack on the sun? Or that Bill Nelson is an anti-American, anti-God terror-traitor, have I committed an ad hominem attack on Satan?

Vitter must be madly scanning the bill for a diaper tax.

if i didn't have such a bad cold i'm sure i could find a good joke in SteveT talking about "rub it on at home" prodcuts for Boehner.

Ah yes. Boehner. The man with the golden gun.

Well, I think humans are capable of some horrible acts, e.g. the holocaust, Srebrenica, many events in classical history and earlier, and what about the sack of Magdeburg?

Yes, these are humans. They may be despicable, but they're human.

Oh, and what about the many of us that aren't doing all we can to stop global warming? Aren't we evil, too, in a way?

I am not a Christian, but I will agree with St. Paul when he said, "All have sinned. All have fallen short of the mark." I don't believe we are perfectible, but we are improvable.

Demonizing our opponents doesn't help, IMHO. YMMV.

tanning beds are, I think, a more likely cause of health problems than elective plastic surgery, so this is actually like a cigarette tax, and will have the added effect of perhaps influencing a lot of college-age women not to do something that can cause skin cancer many years later...

Here in New Jersey (where certain of our youth are very much into tanning salons), we are calling this "the douchebag tax."

elisabeth, that's an excellent point that I would not have thought of; kudos
KathrynH, I'm trying so hard, but I just can't stop myself (poor impulse control) -- granting your point that even "people" who want to let other people die in large numbers, go bankrupt in larger numbers, and suffer grievously in still larger, just to further their political power and the profits of their corporate proprietors, are still "people," is it really possible to "demonize" someone if they're already demonic?
(If anything, I'd think they might appreciate it; satanic supercharging.)
Ok, horse expired last year; I'll stop now
Happy Holidays to all,
and a better New Year!

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