Love the note, Tom! Watched the vote in the House last night, eyelids drooping, but too curious to fall asleep! Now, on to the Senate! And my hope is that it, too, will be aggressive. My bigger hope is that what does get passed has some semblance of sanity and of Obama's objectives in it and that Americans will actually benefit from it!

This young President IS taking on so much. And I've come to feel that there are some people who are simply BRED to complain and distort.....who care nothing whatever about "solutions" of any kind. They are the proverbial back-seat drivers.....stomping and billowing about how Obama is doing everything wrong, but not willing to step up to the plate themselves to help get it right! Those are folks like the ones who say "yes, the economy IS improving....but Obama's stimulus had nothing to do with it...it would have happened anyway!". Guaranteed, those same folks would be first in line to BLAME him if the economy goes south!

Kinda like taking credit for the accomplishments of your kids (and I DON'T do that!)....it means ya gotta take the blame for their failures, too!

Interesting posts. I agree with JudiB's analysis. Perhaps it is my advanced years, but I'm skeptical of virtually everything I hear. Having voted and switched parties a couple of times across my 40 year voting career, I've never been contacted by a pollster for my opinion about anything.

I have received and returned annotated questionairres from both parties that insulted my intelligence on issues in order to fire me up to give money.

What I would like to believe is happening is that people are looking past the loud and flashy to the meat that President Obama casts into the waters and then the methodical way of responding to critics. Dreamer? Probably but I'm not impressed with partisan smoke and mirrors. I'm looking for truth in an out of hand I want stuff democrarcy.

It looks like we will be getting new members in the house next fall. They don't seem to care what the majority wants, but this will change when they get voted out. The senate will be cleaned out too if they are stupid enough to pass the bill too.

Conserve' for USA I think what people fail to realize is that the majority of people want Health Care Reform. Some may get voted out , but it is not going to be as many as you think. Give me a reason to listen to you. Don't just say NO because of party lines. Tell the reason you are saying NO without hateful rhetoric and with a good idea for a solution. This hateful banter is going to turn a lot of people off. I want solutions not a bunch of arguments.