Although the digital age has cut me out of a couple of my favorite shows, Stephanopolous and Face the Nation, I still watch a number of news shows. While overwhelmingly, the pundits talked about health care more than anything, which I think has to make the Obama people sigh a sigh of relief, although the discussion isn't optimum.

I have to give the interesting tidbit of the day to an interview of Chicago richdude Sam Zell in an interview on Bartiromo's show. He said that he thought there could be big problems with commercial real estate in about 3 years. I hadn't heard that anywhere else. The reason he gave was problems meeting mortgages if interest rates change, which he seemed to be implying would go up.

But most of the discussion surrounded Obama, health care, and how he is running into problems, some of them of his own making, in advancing the health care issue. I have to agree with those pundits that say that it is way too early to tell how this is going to wash out. Who would have guessed that "Mine that Bird" was going to win the Derby easily going around the halfway turn? I repeat - if the Republicans think they can base their "comeback" on blocking Obama getting something done on health care reform, they are more delusional than I thought.

The question, to me, is when a bill finally starts to ooze out of congress and look like it's getting some momentum, and it doesn't have all of the components that Obama has been saying needed to be in a bill, whether or not he is going to use his bully pulpit to have it changed, or he is just going to go along to get along? Honestly, I am not sure yet. The devil's in the details, as it usually is.

I want to make a comment about a couple of the commentators I heard today that I am beginning to think are exceptional. One is Eugene Robinson, an African American commentator from the Washington Post, who was on Chris Matthews. The other is Nina Totenberg, long time NPR reporter who is on "Inside Washington." Both of these folks speak the truth with a common intelligence and I am liking them more and more.