While I still believe that the country would have been far better off with a health care resolution 9 months ago, I must give President Obama props for making true the proposition, slow and steady wins the race. Until a month or so ago, health care reform seemed rudderless. And while the opposition was unrelentingly oppositional, that was clear from early on and one sided post-partisanship is about as useful as one hand clapping....in the end, HE DID IT, when many strong and more experienced presidents who preceded him, failed. BO is starting to seem more like Give em Hell Harry Truman than kill me with love, Jimmy Carter. Whether we think the new law is too much or too little, or just right, leaders lead and accomplish and that is what we saw last night. I am both a history and a news junky..and last night was perfect. Give em Hell Barack.
March 22nd 6:22
me, at the opera?
March 10th 7:58
A perfectly nice stranger asked me if I cried at the opera? What an odd question. But who knows, folks may want to know such things about their lawyer.
In order for me to be crying at the opera, first, two rather imposing obstacles would have to be overcome. I would have to be at the opera, and if there I would have to be awake while there. While those two event happening simultaneously are unlikely, it is possible. But, if there and awake you might indeed see me crying, for either of two possibilities. I might be tearing because the music has touched my soul deeply or I may be quietly sobbing because I am at the opera and awake and wondering why I am not at baseball or watching a perfectly banal reality TV show. At home watching Idol, the Bachelor or Biggest Loser, I can catch up on my New Yorker magazines, which would be more than rude at the opera. Not fair.
Big Bonus Angst
January 28th 5:57
There is no amount of Washington bull$&%# that is going to explain to my satisfaction how it came to pass that the bailout funds, paid by middleclass tax payers now and way into the future, that went to the banks/Wall Street/AIG did not come with restrictions disallowing the payment of humongous bonuses to the fat cats who perpetrated the financial meltdown by their greedy and stupid practices. And while I can appreciate that these bonuses do not represent a substantial portion of the trillions involved, nonetheless the whole concept is repugnant and vile. And, while I appreciate that these stupid choices preceded the Obama Administration, I don’t see that his financial geniuses have done any better that Bush’s financial geniuses at exposing, reversing and preventing this insanity. STOP! I am not close to joining the Tea Party but anyone for a cup of coffee?
