[DoughtyOne]

You know, I'm about to the place where I think our elected offials are the ones who need to be screened. If they show any inclination to support bills like this, medicate the f'n hell out of them. Do it for four years if that's what it takes. Good Lord, the lunatics are running the asylum.

[nunya bidness]

Good Lord, the lunatics are running the asylum.

Nothing a little soma won't cure.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

"I'm about to the place where I think our elected offials are the ones who need to be screened."

And start with this administration...it's their brainchild.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

LOL. Sedate Congress!

Works for me.

[msjhall]

I like your idea. Let's screen them all!

[AuntB]

"I'm about to the place where I think our elected offials are the ones who need to be screened."

Bump that!

[A Navy Vet]

I am completely flabbergasted. I never heard of this initiate and the House just pasted their version of it.

I thought Bush's 15billion for AIDS to the sinkhole Africa, and his absurd idea to grant down payments so low income people could buy real property was bad enough...but this!!

I swear I should have voted for Kerry just to expedite the momentum towards socialism and get on with the revolution. This is absolutely unexcusable.

Conservatism is Dead

[A Navy Vet]

I believe this article from The Standard News has jumped the gun. I can't find any direct funding in the House or Senate "Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005" for any mandated mental health screening. I believe they are talking about funding for Bush's extension of ADA called, the New Freedom Initiative above, which includes a number of commissions, including the Commission on Mental Health.

Of course, the above Commission has already suggested such screening, but I can find no legislation mandating it or appropriations for it.

See: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html

[A Navy Vet]

There was HR 3063 submitted in 2003 which would authorize 10 test facilities for screening, but with parental approval. It doesn't seem to have made it out of the last sub-committe.

See:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query