Democrats are planning to have the big vote on this controversial health care bill sometime next week. President Obama even delayed his trip to the south east in order to make sure this thing gets passed.

I’m delighted that the president will be here for the passage of the bill, It’s going to be historic. And it would not be possible without his tremendous, tremendous leadership, his persistence, his concern for the American people, always guided by his statement that we will measure our success by the progress being made by America’s working families.”

This is what Nancy Pelosi said to reporters earlier today as she found out that Obama will be staying for the vote. Let's hope they can actually get this thing done and move on to some other topic like the torture debate like in the post right below this one about the topic.

During his State of the Union address yesterday, President Obama made what some are calling a rude comment, geared towards the new supreme court ruling that states that since a corporation has human rights like speech and so on, that it can donate unlimited funds to political campaigns for public office. The quote, which was apparently added to the speech by the President on the spot and not originally part of the speech is:
With all due deference to the separation of powers,'' he began delicately, then reverted to his prepared remarks, ''the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections.
After this was said, and everyone was cheering, the cameras panned over to Justice Alito, who then mouthed to the president "Simply not true", as show in the video below.

Despite all that is going on in the world, the main point at the White house brief today was the basketball game. The president along with several cabinet members and congressman played a game this afternoon and later in the briefing noted that they were regretful that they didn't invite any women. There are SO many other things they could have been doing, but instead they chose to play a game of basketball, probably leaving whatever they had to do until the last minute, like this blog.

Since when does the president "give out homework" to kids? The video below talks about his speech.