To Your Health -- National Reform, and California H2O
Aug. 20, 2009 |
By Patt Morrison
It was pretty much what you'd like a debate to be, yet it so seldom is:
Courteous, yet disputatious. Orange County Republican congrssman John Campbell and Los Angeles Democratic congressman Xavier Becerra mixed it up on health care reform, and there were too many calls to accommodate, so a rematch is definitely in order. Do the honorable gentlemen concur?
The fringe folks on the health care debate puts me in mind of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's admonition that everyone is entitled to his own opinion -- but not to his own facts. The sometimes wacky town hall sideshows have shown that some people refuse to conform to facts, and prefer their fanciful notions. Flat earth, anyone?
Next time, what was it Coleridge wrote about the Ancient Mariner? Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink? That's the fix we're finding ourselves in with the Delta water system, in some places nearly 150 years old and everywhere nearly a total mess. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a plan to fix it, but some environmentalists aren't happy about it, and nearly all farmers hate it. What's good about it, what's terrible about it? In my absence, your own, your very own Frank Stoltze will be here to tell you why.
-- Patt Morrison
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