Mailbag!

Operative BG writes in tonight with the following referring to this post:

Talk about getting it everything wrong. Look at the top center of that Time cover. The center story says, "Beyond Detente: Why We Can't Beat The Soviets."

If the story inside didn't begin with the words, "Because Jimmy Carter is president," then Time's descent into irrelevancy had started earlier than I had believed.

Reminds me of something I heard on the news radio station on the way home today: apparently Jimmy Carter is claiming that in the closing days of his failing presidency, he had a Health Care reform bill ready but.....insert drum roll here......wait for it......Ted Kennedy stopped it.  Yes!  Former President Carter was stymied by Teddy K because Kennedy wanted that ground for himself.  Allegedly...in Carter's words, at least.