What The Hell Is Up With That?

It’s one thing to be in a reality based world operating from fact, but it’s an entirely different set of circumstances when you begin to blurt out partisan BS with the same veracity as flushing an airplane toilet.  I wouldn’t mind if the talking points posed serious questions about issues that could be debated, but it’s all just “staying on message” talking points designed to take the middle class and infuse doubt and confusion as opposed to fact. (more…)

I watch our political figures tap dance around issue after issue and often wonder what they are doing for us – their constituency. I’m puzzled by it; because it would seem lately (and by lately I’m talking about the last 15 – 20 years) there is an awful lot of political wrangling going on with the well defined party lines. It reminds me of that F. Lee Bailey quote: “Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee”. Here’s the scarier thing he said that in 1967! (more…)

This entire thing has more turns in it than a windy road weaving through the Grand Canon. I honestly don’t get the debate between a public option, private option, government option… how about an option that guarantees every American citizen health coverage! It’s very simple as far as I can tell - nobody should go broke because they can’t afford health insurance and certainly nobody should die because they get sick! (more…)