Steve

The beers may have been cold on Thursday, but did they cool the emotions of the folks involved? I suspect the cold compress will require more regular application.

To an illustrator, a cardinal sin is getting your metaphor wrong.  Leave it to the GOP.  Sen. Jim De Mint , who recently called for Health Care Reform to be Obama’s Waterloo, is a case in point.  He should have said that it would be his “Willet’s Creek”.  The better metaphor is Frank Capra’s “Mr. … Read more

As the legislation moves through the Senate a consensus for watered-down health care reform starts to emerge: a plan that regulates the corporations some more, sparing them the inconvenience of  the desperately needed Public Option.  This turn of events didn’t come from the GOP, but from DEMOCRATS.  Conservative Democrats, called Blue Dogs.  But “conservative” is … Read more

I’m really an insurance company . . . but I play a doctor on TV. All week, as the intensity of the health Care debate has been ratcheted up.  Obama and reformers have had to defend against attacks on reform.  These have gotten sharper and more destructive as poll numbers for reform sink, commensurate with … Read more

Walter Cronkite’s 92 years spanned most of the important events of the 20th Century.  In fact that was the name of a program he hosted (as though the century was “brought to you” by Cronkite).  And it sort of was.  From World War II to Reagan he was on the scene to so great an … Read more