Post One Hundred Five: Scatterbrain was on to something

Jesus, Edwards. Why not just have a government rep standing by to wipe our ass when we're finished using the restroom?

State nannism doesn’t get much better than this

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat “the first trace of problem.”

Once that’s settled, I’m sure President Edwards would start mandating acceptable health standards and practices. Outlaw tobacco and transfats, then regulate and ration white sugar, red meat, diary and how many times annually one can visit fast food restaurants.

[excerpted from Protein Wisdom]

You may remember a slightly underrated band called Scatterbrain a few years back. Their song "Goodbye Freedom, Hello Mom" was eerily prescient:

1984 has past, Forget about Big Brother
Welcome to the 90s where the government’s your mother.

I sense a new campaign theme song for Edwards.