Brian Williams/John Boehner Interview

I admire Brian Williams, a good reporter and presenter with a terrific sense of humor. However, I think he failed in the part of the Boehner inteview that I saw.

In explaining the Republican attempt to repeal the health care reform act, Boehner referred to our health care system as the best in the world. Is it too much to ask that Williams respond with a question such as "How can ours be the best system with 40 million people uninsured and with our low standing in many health care measurements?

2011 EVENTS

Republicans take over Congress; 1000 dead blackbirds fall from the sky

It snows in the Northeast, including New Jersey and New York City

Representative Issa uncovers Teapot Dome scandal in Oval Office.

Liberal Democrats complain about White House appointment.

Michael Steele is sorely missed ("It was the best of times, it.....")

Mel Gibson utters a bad word.

Facebook buys Google.

Barack Obama friends Queen Elizabeth

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks with emotion and at length

Pat Robertson arrested for pot smoking

Republicans deny climate change; oceans keep rising

Bill O'Reilly claims that he can see God there on the moon causing tides

Michele Bachmann releases her political book, The Audacity of Dope

Mark Twain returns and excoriates censors, using the F word

BP opens wind farm off Cape Cod

Oklahoma Congressman offers Constitutional Amendment banning sharia law in U.S.

JP Morgan Exec.. Opposed Health Care Bill.. Didn't Back Consumer Protection..
And Obama's New Chief Of Staff

Let's hope that in his talks with President Obama he has "clarified" his positions.

Happy New Year! Look back in anger at 2010. Continuing financial problems, slow recovery, few jobs. Earthquakes, forest fires, devastating floods. But the worst disaster is the failure to do much to address the inevitable ultimate disaster: climate change.