Ben and I will be guest hosting on Sirius Out Q tomorrow (The Frank DeCaro Show) from 11 am til 2 pm. Sirius channel 109, XM 98.
Frank is not only a great, funny, cupcake-loving guy (who knows how to wear a sharp suit), but has also been a true friend to us and even once took me to Wendy's to give me career advice.
If you can't take advice from a guy who eat Wendy's who can you take advice from?
George W. and Bill Clinton are in Haiti raising money and lifting spirits after the earthquake. They're even out there shaking hands with regular people. While Bill doesn't mind touching anyone and everyone around, George isn't quite as friendly. I hope Bill knows a good dry cleaner.
Gawker has a great piece on the disaster know as Regent/Here Media. Wow, it turns out that I might've worked at a Ponzi scheme. Does it get any cooler than that?!
Try to count the broken promises in this video, then I'll offer up some thoughts on healthcare...
I waited a day before writing about healthcare because I wanted to write about the process, not the bill, and not just regurgitate talking points like everyone on cable news is doing. Also, I watched so much CNN that my whole body was left numb and I had to wait til it passed so that I could type again. I've finally shaken it off, so here we go...
In the year that it took to get this thing passed, we saw President Obama break virtually every campaign promise he ran on, such as being bipartisan, having transparency, no lobbyists, and no shady deals. At the same time, the Republicans realized that since they weren't in power they just united to run against anything the Democrats wanted to do, regardless of what it was. Caught in the middle of that were people like Bart Stupack who abandoned their core values on things like abortion, just to toe the party line. Or that little man Dennis Kucinich, who was always against the bill until Obama took a last minute trip out to visit him. Or even all of the people of Nebraska, who didn't want the kickback that they were originally given as part of this.
Oh, and let's not forget we got introduced to a group of people know as Tea Partiers, a classy group, indeed.
I guess the lesson here is that government is so broken that it can only work if only broken people are a part of it. It actually needs people who run on all lies, throw out everything they believe in when they are in office and ignore the will of the people just so it can function. So, in that regard, it shows that this whole thing actually was a success, because Obama just said "we're doing this no matter what" and that the ends justify the means. Seems like he took a page from George W. Bush in that regard.
Oh, and for the record, I think I am one of the people who stands to benefit from this, because I currently pay $390 a month for my health insurance, so believe me, I do actually hope this whole thing works.
I'd write more now, but in a true American way I'm gonna take that $390 and go to the dog track...
I was gonna try not to post about Betty White today, but it is just about impossible because she keeps showing up everywhere. Last night she was on Larry King Live (for some reason after Dennis Kucinich) and she was great as always. Watching two octogenarians talk about Twitter, or "Tweeter" as Larry calls it, is pretty awesome...
As if there hasn't been enough Betty talk around here, she showed up on The Tonight Show last night. How I was not aware of this beforehand is clearly beyond human imagination...
