Here's a small point that I want to make that you can revisit in one, two three and then four years.


Two things that make me laugh and think about how stupid the cheering throngs sound.


Oil and healthcare.



BO and JB are on the idea that raising the taxes for the oil companies will lower the price of gas.

This is another kneejerk reaction from the side that thinks a monetary levy will solve the gas crisis? From the same group that doesn't want wind mills or solar panels blocking their views. And the madame secretary is glad that everyone forgot her private jet/ government paid carbon footprint


The other thing is affordable health insurance for the masses.

Dream on! There will never be any affordable health care from the government because they are the government. The number one reason that doctors, health plans and insurance companies go not want to deal with them is that the gov't. drags their feet to pay, the docs and hospitals are governed by a thing called DRGs which tell the health providers that illnesses that require hospital stays are paid for up until a certain day.

THe last hurdle to affordable health care is the law, lawyers and litigants.

People watch too many stupid TV shows about hospitals and doctors that they think HOUSE could treat anyone. A sad sack physician-hack like that would last as long a passing gas in a bubble bath.

Maybe that is the answer.....

Sending people to TV doctors and then making them abide by the script.