Fun With Dick & Jane

Dick was back today for a rare appearance. The subject was health care, and more health care and then even more health care.

Dick doesn’t like the health care bill much (I don’t know anyone who does – except maybe Scotty McCall. Joe, Scotty and I did a remote on Friday where we discussed the then, pending bill).

Dick pointed out that this is business as usual. I disagree. We have never ever had a bill, so opposed by the public (75%) passed by one party full of nothing short of bribes.

We talked about the immediate ramifications, the exemptions (among them the staffers who wrote the bill exempted themselves from the bill) and what is going to happen going forward.

We spent some time on the latest GITMO detaineee to be released, Slahi Ali Saleh Nabhan- who by most accounts is the worst guy at GITMO. The problem is there is no place to release him to, so the president is in a bit of a pickle. Will he now argue that he can hold someone with no hope of a trial, after fighting so hard for just the opposite? Or will he release the most dangerous operative of al Qaeda in GITMO? We await his decision.