our long month of bipartisan or post partisanship bullshit is over, oh wait it has only been three weeks. lol bring on the battering ram and the investigations

oh, jesus christ, enough w/ the messiah crap. : )
I fell asleep watching it, but was surprised at his "serious daddy" tone.
that and how bad his make-up was.

If we want Obama to strike and give us some good economic legislation, we'll need to put the hammer in his hand, a gun to his head, and make him swing it. People aren't ready to do that yet, they are hoping he will still "save" them out of the goodness of his heart (or the color of his skin?) After this stimulus/bank bailout crap blows up, people might wise up enough to start really pushing.

Obama needed to demonstrate that he was striving to be evenhanded in the process and that he was listening. What he heard was the GOPs circling in the murk for any weakness where they could make him appear to fail as they prepare for his defeat in 2012. So that is now out of the way and his response was refreshing.

Those are right who are calling for pressure to now be applied. That's the reason for the trips to Indiana and Florida, meeting with the locals and modeling for the nation the kind of dialogue that he wants to be taking place everywhere. That is process leadership and modeling is the most potent form of leadership. People tend to do what the leaders do rather than listening to what the leaders say if there is inconsistency. If leaders are actually walking the walk and talking the talk and it all fits, that is powerful. That's what I see Obama doing now. Last week I was worried; things are now back on track.

Mobilizing the American people to actually do something is not easy. He must tell people what to do and use the Internet once again to mobilize people to make those calls to the members of Congress. Stay tuned.

Channing
Ventura CA USA

AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has returned to the Senate ... to vote for President Barack Obama's massive economic stimulus package.

Kennedy told reporters outside the Capitol that, in his own words, "It's time that we take action now."

_{I feel the American worker has been sacrificed to the capitalist idols in the ancient Mayan fashion. - Sue Lamb, NYT reader}

Actually, legislation was not what I was thinking of ramming down their throats. My thoughts run to public humiliation, but I don't think they'd get the joke.

That and a good swift KITA.