Joe Klein Is The Flower

When Money Is Exchanged For Pregnancy, Some Believe, Surrogacy Comes Close To Organ-selling, Or Even Baby-selling.

Liberal That I Am, I Support Health-care Reform On Its Merits Alone. My Liberal Blood Boils, For Example, When I Read That Half Of The Personal Bankruptcies In This Country Are Brought On, In Part, By Medical Expenses.

I Was In A Bad Mood When I Wrote That.

There Is Something Uniquely Depressing About The Fact That The National Portrait Gallery’s Version Of The Barack Obama “hope” Poster Previously Belonged To A Pair Of Lobbyists. Depressing Because Mr. Obama’s Washington Was Not Supposed To Be The Lobbyists’ Washington, The Place We Learned To Despise During The Last Administration.

We Have Become A Society That Can't Self-correct, That Can't Address Its Obvious Problems, That Can't Pull Out Of Its Nosedive. And So To Our List Of Disasters Let Us Add This Fourth Entry: We Have Entered An Age Of Folly That - For All Our Facebooking And The Twittling Tweedle-dee-tweets Of The Twitterati - We Can't Wake Up From.