The time has come

Americans must have universal health care. It's downright humiliating we trail the world in health care, and Michael Moore's new documentary, "Sicko," demonstrates that need in a very entertaining way well worth the $10 movie ticket price.

Those who want to close their eyes because of the anti-Michael Moore lobby might want to read this CNN report showing Moore's data checks out. Context? Who cares. Don't we already know what the insurance industry will say? It wouldn't be informative -- or entertaining.
Good show, again, old boy!

Welcome back, Whitman

Now, our other Christie is in the news. Ex-Gov. Christie Whitman cried uncle to Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and agreed to testify about her time as George Bush's first EPA administrator. I'm glad she had the sense to tell Bush to take his job and shove it, but I wish she had kept the job and still shoved it to him. Successors at the Environmental Protection Agency have been bigger disasters.

911blogger.com has a post on how Whitman came to be persuaded to testify, with a good comment thread already started, but please come back here to comment, too.
I hope she'll be as honest as James Comey was about his time in the DoJ.

Those "right on the dial" might think about the fact that if it weren't for Whitman dutifully telling us for her royal unitary executive that it was safe to breath the air in New York City a week after 9/11, Michael Moore wouldn't have had victims for this new film, "Sicko," premiering tomorrow at Cannes Film Festival. He took rescue and cleanup workers suffering lung ailments from 9/11 to Cuba for a cure. Could it be a little shock and awe for the Bushies?