Bits And Pieces

From the Department of WTF comes news of plans expand the Community Reinvestment Act.
Apparently the mortgage crisis wasn’t big enough. We can do more!
In other news, the “life expectancy as health care barometer” meme so loved by the progressives has been demolished. (h/t Glenn)
And Ace reports seventy percent in swing districts oppose the Baucus mandate/fines. As I’ve been saying, Americans don’t like the government telling them what they have to buy for their own good. It just seems… unAmerican. We’re a country founded on liberty.