How can cows stand the cold? My fingers fumbled just taking this shot.

Two-hour breakfast with Glenn this morning, halfway between here and there, to discuss healthcare plans and such, and to work on my healthcare query (the most recent version of which has been re-posted, a few days back).

When our meeting was over and I was paying the bill, I asked our waitress, an attractive, tired looking, middle-aged woman if she had health care. Yes, she said, Badger Care, with is the very limited and restrictive policy provided to Wisconsin residents who make just a bit more than the abject poverty level that would enable them to get Medicaid. She found it demeaning and unpleasant (limited to just a few doctors most of whom she found speaking a language she couldn't understand). But because she had a disabled child, it was a lifeline.

Still, she thought government was nothing but corruption, and she had the word from truck drivers that government systems like Canadian one sucked. I'm quite sure that if she voted, she voted against herself.

She IS the person my query is aimed at, and the one the Democratic Party needs to bring home.