Nothing much in the news except for the Supreme Court opening it's consideration of the health care law, which brings me to the last ditch babbling's of Rick Santorum in his sinking campaign for the White House.
And, obviously, he doesn't have much to offer voters outside his limited appeal to the far right, so he continues to hammer Mitt Romney, particularly on that very same issue. And that brings me back to the subject I've been jotting about over the last few days regarding the great benefits of learning from your mistakes. Because experience is the greatest teacher in the world, provided that folks use the results wisely.
In that regard, according to Richard Rainey, of The Times-Picayune, Romney spoke in Metairie, Louisiana on Friday and not only called for a full repeal of the national health care package, but also a replacement that would put the onus on states to design market-based health care markets, saying, "We'll learn from one another. We'll have good plans and bad plans and we'll compare them and states will ultimately select those things that will work best for their people. There are differences between states."
He went on to say that, "In my state, we had roughly seven to eight percent of our population uninsured. So the solution was quite different than, say, the solution for Texas where 25 percent are uninsured. Different states have to take different approaches."
As for myself, I see Romney's approach as mature, learned, and one that recognizes the value of what one has seen and done in the past. It also appreciates how much can be gained by adaptation to changing circumstances and cases. And I think that's especially important because right now we have a glaring example of the complete reverse in the White House where the incumbent precisely fits the famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
Therefore, I can only hope that both the president and Santorum keep yapping away within the narrow borders created by their inexperience and naivete, and as for Mitt, let him keep educating the public instead of shoveling tons of useless political rhetoric. Because what the nation needs now is someone who really knows what he's doing and not a blabbering bag of wind.
That's it for today folks.
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