It's Always About Him

The president's ego is still quite healthy, even if his poll numbers aren't. Rasmussen has him at 44% approval and 55% of Americans disapproving of the job he's doing. None of that matters to our self reverential Commander in Chief though because one of his supporters wants to be buried in his t-shirt. Unbelievable.




UPDATE: She had health insurance. From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:

"When Melanie Shouse began feeling ill, eventually finding a lump in her breast, she couldn't afford a doctor. She and her partner had just used their savings to open a business.
A year later, doctors told her she had terminal, stage four breast cancer.

She spent the next 4½ years fighting for health care reform that she didn't live to see pass.

Ms. Shouse died Saturday (Jan. 30, 2010) at her home in Overland. She was 41.

...In a speech in November at the Arch grounds, she spoke about the need to "take on the Big Insurance Monopoly and liberate American families from the slavery of skyrocketing insurance premiums and canceled coverage, which leave millions of us in a state of perpetual fear and insecurity ..."

Using herself as an example, Ms. Shouse said she had put off going to a doctor because her health insurance policy had a $5,000 deductible. She called it "'hit by a bus' kind of insurance."'