Your brilliant-blogger watched the speech on CBS because nothing is more entertaining than watching Katie Couric remind everyone that she took the short-bus to school.  There is no doubt that Bob Schieffer has superb self-control. No one could blame him if he lost it for a moment and called her out for being a moron.

Doomed ship – I mean President Obama- begins his speech.

Random thoughts throughout the speech:

In Titanic fashion Obama tells the country that the economy is improving. He must not see the iceberg known as 9.7% unemployment and commercial property value collapsing looking at  him and on the horizon, respectively.

Obama went on a utopia sounding sermon ending with, “there remains to be significant details to iron out.” Need I say more?

Mr. Obama is telling Republicans he wants to work together. If he means it why hasn’t he invited the GOP leadership to discuss health care since April? He also claims government bureaucrats won’t get in the way or that he will sign a plan that “adds one dime to the deficit now or the future.”

I defer to his statement, “there remains to be significant details to iron out.”

Grab those few remaining pictures of Charlie Rangel not wearing an orange jumpsuit.

$900 billion government projections is code for 2.5-4 trillion dollars.

Rahm just got his marching orders from his master.

And now the Teddy stuff begins:

That reminds me I need a drink.

Obama just said “Kennedy” and “drove” in the same sentence. I’m waiting for “bridge.”

I see Dennis Kucinich. He may be a socialist but he and his fellow elves make great chocolate covered graham crackers.

It’s time for the GOP response. I’m not excited either.

This Cajun dude needs to relax or take a laxative.

Nice of him to hope that the President is serious about medical-liability reform. I have a bridge to sell him later.

That was quick and meaningless.

An overview.

There is no doubt that President Obama is passionate about health care. But the only thing he was clear about was how everything is the insurance companies fault and government has the Midas touch.

A politician telling you something will cost one amount means the price tag is three to ten times higher. Claiming that his plan, which, “there remains to be significant details to iron out,” won’t add a “single dime” to the deficit is as disingenuous as any statement made by any President.

President Obama told the American people tonight what they want to hear. He attacked insurance companies and made government appear as our knight in shining armor. But the entire speech can be summed up by his own words:

There remains to be significant details to iron out

Emotions are running high in America as the country is entrenched in the debate over health care.  Conventional wisdom dictates that rational thinking must always prevail over irrational judgment that almost always accompanies human emotion.  However, as a victim of child-hood cancer, I can tell you as I live and breathe today, it is our humanity that must triumph in our national discussion that may ultimately decide who lives — and who dies.

Twenty-four years ago this month I found myself on an operating table in a suburban Chicago hospital undergoing what was supposed to be routine surgery. Doctors were removing a mass of calcified tissue that was present for a few years in my right arm, but finally, the growth had caused this 14-year old baseball fanatic to lose the zip on his fast-ball, or so it would seem.

When I awoke from surgery, I learned that I didn’t have a harmless calcium deposit – I had cancer.

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