Remember Sanjay Gupta? Who Thought He Would Be a Good Surgeon General?

Not I, said the little red hen....lol I said he was a corporate tool and would always be..well the proof of it showed this week even more than before.

Rick Sanchez along with most of the media has also shown their true colors in this run up to the final laps in the Health Care Debate. He had Gupta and a representative from my own state of Missouri, Roy Blunt on his show Monday to discuss Health Care and the Republican version of it. Yeah, there is supposed to be one.

Now just keep reminding yourself that Gupta was supposed to be the Surgeon General pick at one time. I never liked him, never thought he would be a good pick, never believed he was the choice of the White House. I thought all along it was a publicity maneuver of CNN.

One of the things you have to remember is how he tried his best to destroy Michael Moore and the movie Sicko. Which has now been proven to be 150% true. That link is just one and takes you to Krugman's blog, there has also been the Moyer's interview with Wendell Potter formally with Cigna Ins. Co. in which he says the movie was exactly right and Michael Moore was spot on.

The PBS piece is worth watching and is very informative about the Health Care Reform. Potter was also on the Ed Show last week, and said some of the same things.

But, the point is.. Gupta was a bad pick if he was ever the pick for Surgeon General and he just reinforces it when he shows himself in this video as an insurance shill.

Of course Roy Blunt is just as bad, but then he is married to a lobbyist and is paid off by them and as a republican is not wanting anything to do with any kind of Health Care Reform that would be good for the people in America. Anything they (the republicans) want has to be good for them and getting them back in power, and making the president look bad in the process.

I got this video and the transcript of it can be found at Crooks & Liars/Video Cafe.

Tom Daschle Tax Problems too big to handle???

I have said all along if there was a problem I would talk about it. Well, I have a problem today.

Tom Daschle. It looks like he is becoming a problem. He has known since June that he had a tax problem and he just now is paying them and it is just now coming out. Why did he not pay them in June?? That would have really defused this whole thing.

Also, why did he not know he had to pay these taxes. If he had an accountant, what was he paying this guy to do?? I think I would be firing him and finding another one if he missed this and it cost me that much.

No, I am not blaming this on Pres. Obama, but I am saying it can present a problem for him that we really don't need right now. After dealing with Tim Geithner, now this.

Pres. Obama is struggling with the ethics issues he wants to hold to on the lobbying issues. They are so entrenched in Washington politics that it is hard to find good help in Washington that doesn't have ties to them, no matter who or what administration you are from. It seems once you leave office you automatically go to work for a lobbying firm.

He has already had to relax his stance from when he was on the campaign trail and is getting lots of heat from the media and some pundits over that. Now after asking for some waivers he is getting even more. Even though the ones he has hired fit in with the guidelines he set, Politico and others are trying to say he is stretching his boundaries by hiring so many. Lets see... he has 12 people who have very tenuous ties to lobbying out of nearly 8,000 employees. I don't think that's too bad.

But, back to the main issue here of the Daschle problem. What are we to do?? He himself never lobbied, but his wife did, so are they going to use that against him also?? I don't know for sure what to think about it, I am torn.

I was really leaning toward Howard Dean for this position anyway, and never understood the pick of Daschle. So, maybe it is time for a change here. I still think it might be a good use of Dean. Of course, we still don't have anyone in the Surgeon General position... Whatever happened to the Sanjay Gupta story anyway???