President Hubby.

Will all the silly talk of impeachment in the air -- the new Congress wanting to impeach the president first, then come up with the charges later, I suppose -- I must say I am disgusted. Things have reached a pretty pass in Washington, I must say, a pretty pass.

It's a different outlook here. I've been honored to be the president now for quite some time, and I want to thank Congress for not impeaching me. At least not yet.

What I mean by this is probably not what you think. Years ago I read an essay on the topic of marriage by my spiritual guide, the great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis, who wrote:

If there must be a head, why the man? ... The relations of the family to the outer world—what might be called its foreign policy—must depend, in the last resort, upon the man, because he always ought to be, and usually is, much more just to the outsiders. A woman is primarily fighting for her own children and husband against the rest of the world. Naturally, almost, in a sense, rightly, their claims override, for her, all other claims. She is the special trustee of their interests.
     The function of the husband is to see that this natural preference of hers is not given its head. He has the last word in order to protect other people from the intense family patriotism of the wife. If anyone doubts this, let me ask a simple question. If your dog has bitten the child next door, or if your child has hurt the dog next door, which would you sooner have to deal with, the master of that house or the mistress? Or, if you are a married woman, let me ask you this question. Much as you admire your husband, would you not say that his chief failing is his tendency not to stick up for his rights and yours against the neighbours as vigorously as you would like? A bit of an Appeaser?

All of this is very interesting, and almost as likely to cause fights in the time he wrote it as now. But I have come over the years to see that he was right in some key respects.

My wife always expects me to deal with the idiots in the outside world, something I hate to do. She has her own (excellent) career, where she deals with all kinds of people, but when it comes to things related to us and the house and all, I have to be the Executive Branch. (Get your mind out of the gutter, Stiiv.) I have to lead the diplomatic corps with repairmen, landscapers, plow guy, the guy who checks the meters, you name it. When it's takeout night, I get the takeout. If we get lost, or when we did before Google Maps, I was the one who had to ask the nice man in the gas station where the hell we were and how the hell to get where we were going.

On the other hand, my wife is the coequal power of Congress, holding the purse strings, making the laws, setting the legislative agenda. I can sign on to her laws, or I can veto them, but if she is two-thirds committed to a law, it gets passed over my veto. (She's not always that sold on it.) On the other hand, I may have grand ideas, but she can derail them pretty quickly. We forget in this country that Congress and the presidency are supposed to be equal powers, but we haven't forgotten it in this house.

It seems to work for us, anyway.

Oh, you're wondering about that third branch, the judiciary? Well, my mother-in-law passed away some years ago, but sometimes I think she still weighs in on cases....

They should have bought life insurance.

So I heard on the news that UnitedHealthcare has lost so much money on Obamacare patients that it is aiming to leave the health exchanges by next year. As it turns out, UHC is not even one of the biggest players in the field. Humana, Aetna, Anthem, and Blue Cross are more heavily invested and are suffering more and greater losses.

"My Heart Bleeds for You"

I hope all the insurance companies wind up begging for money, begging to be released from their commitments, because they could have stopped this thing. They may eventually realize that the plan was always for them to become wards of the state, eventually incorporated into the Department of Health & Human Services as part of US National Healthcare, but by then it may be too late. The greedy suckers only saw millions of people being forced by government's lethal power to buy their products, and they fell in line. Well, that bayonet points at everyone eventually, smart guys.

Will it be worth it to completely wreck what's left of our healthcare just to see the unindicted co-conspirators go down with the ship? No, but it will be a bit of consolation. Like enjoying the band as the Titanic takes us under.

I still have some hope that good, streamlined law could replace the bad, unwieldy law, something that perhaps doesn't require a million bureaucrats, arbitrary rulemaking, or brutal punishment for people who work for a living. I tried to do my bit toward that this morning, at the polls, but it's a long shot regardless of the outcome. We shall have to see.

In the meantime -- young and healthy people, keep sticking it to the Man by not buying health insurance, even if they make you pay a penalty. It's not a tax, no matter what the cursed and wicked Supreme Court says, so you do what you have to do to avoid it. That will bring the phony baloney structure down around their ears.

Meanwhile, my ears will be busy listening to the violin above playing for our friends in the insurance game.