It's fairly easy to understand. The country took a flier on an unknown quantity rather than opt for another four years (or more) of George Bush...or anything named Clinton. Now the bill comes due. In one year the people have learned what a fraud this empty suit really is; how beholding he is to George Soros and MoveOn.org and his Union and Hollyweird cronies and they've rebelled.

The only thing modern day politicians understand is the ballot box totals and, therefore, that's the only place where we, the people, can exert any force. If they refuse to listen (and they all do) they need to be kicked to the curb in November. Is it November yet???

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views,” Mr. Obama wrote in “The Audacity of Hope, his I’m-running-for-president book. “As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.”

I didn't vote for Obama but I sure didn't want to vote for McCain. That is the problem in the US. Bush really did suck. Yet I voted for him twice and would do so again as there was no one else. Our politicians are really and truly stuck on stupid, and that is both parties. All of us want something to happen with health care, yet none of us can agree that the main problem is the fact that the government is the issue. They are the ones that have increased the cost of everything and reduced the quality by trying to make us follow their regulations (which boil down to nothing but paper work). If the government got out of the health industry, the cost would go down in one year and the system would work far better (both state and federal). But our great leaders feel that on state and federal levels they can do much better than us peons. Both parties have spent money to the extent that the dollar is worthless and our economy is on the brink of being bankrupt. Yet none of our leaders even address the problem. I considered running for office but my wife freaked out as she does not want the exposure. And that is the problem. Good people can not run as the system tries to distroy them personally. The only answer is to clean house, and not at the ballot box.

I really don't care if anything is done on health care because I know they will screw it up.
The search for a "Free Lunch" is frustrating

The majority gets the government it DESERVES.

I often define myself as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

Illustrating once again that people who define themselves as fiscal conservatives and social liberals are (a) not too bright, and (b) easy pickings for the left.

I'm of the opinion that she should be accepted at face value, but humiliated for her past stupidity. If she votes for obama again because people all her stupid, for being stupid last year, then she is a small petulant little girl who can't be trusted anymore than her chosen candidate.