Gee whiz. One of the nicest things said about me in the last year. Anywhere. I'm humbled.

Now, please, I'd suggest you read a book, any book, by anyone, which deals with the health care issue. The one I read most recently is "Confidence Men" - Wall Street, Washington and the education of a President" by Ron Suskind. HarperCollinsPublishers.

Suskind seems to me to be about as unbiased as he could be, and at the end of the book I didn't know whether he approved of Obama or not. And it was fascinating to read of the process. And the double-dealing, double-crossing and avoiding things which would have cut costs were not repeat not led, most of the time, by Democrats.

When you talk about "Obamacare" rather than "Universal Health Care" I'm going to read a perjorative bias into it. And I think reasonably.

And a true fiscal conservative would approve of cutting the military budget in half. We are not threatened by anyone at any meaningful level. Seriously. There are no merchant ships off our coast with crop dusters.