The Health Care Struggle

Senator Sherrod Brown was quoted saying, "I don't want four Democratic senators dictating to the other 56 of us and to the rest of the country -- when the public option has this much support -- that [a public option is] not going to be in it." But where is all this support supposedly coming from?

Most of surveys show that the public is more against the public option than for it, and most of the Senators aren't even sold on the public option, they just wanted to have the debate on the bill. Senator Lieberman probably has the best view on the situation: "I don't want to fix the problems in our health-care system in a way that creates more of an economic crisis." Unfortunately, the Democrats seem to be deaf to all criticism.

Mourning Fort Hood

We should all take the time mourn for the losses that Fort Hood experienced last week and take a moment to reflect on what has led to the crisis. Our sympathies go out to those who lost loved ones and for all the wounded.

Are the Republicans on the Rise?

November 4: two Republicans won the Governor's seat in states carried by President Obama in the presidential election. The results of these elections has generated different responses on both sides.

The Republican party says that these elections are proof that people have become disenchanted with the President's agenda. The fact that a Republican is going to the Virginia's Governor's Mansion for the first time in a decade is causing a lot of celebration, as it should. Are these elections, however, significant to a national trend?