Personally I believe that Congress and the President understand the issues all too well. It's been pointed out to them several times by many of their own members. Wendell Potter has testified twice. Unless Obama is deaf, dumb and blind, he is well aware of what has been said.

So, at this point we have to take the position that it's not that they don't know, it is just they want to preserve and, indeed, pour gifts upon the for-profit industry that fuels their campaigns.

It talk people of prominence like Keith Olbermann to do what our President has yet to do -- lay the facts out in stark and passionate terms. Where is the rest of Hollywood and other prominent entertainers? Why are they struck dumb on this issue.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, for example, cameras follow them everywhere? Where are they on the issue of health care for all? Even George Clooney, who I greatly admire for his work on Dafur and other human rights abuses, where is he on this vital issue on human rights in his own back yard? He once went on a trip with Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times because he said if the cameras love him so much they could follow him. There are celebrities who are making comments in TV commercials on all sorts of topics? Why are there none on real health care reform?

I have so much respect for Keith Olbermann. As I was watching the Special Comment last night and KO spoke about the parallels with Dickens' time I was thinking wow, and England has had health care for all for many years now. And look at us, the U.S. One need not say more. What a backward, unenlightened, immoral country we are.