The Obama Administration learned a valuable lesson from parents across the country: don’t push your socialist agenda on my child.  After a week of criticism over a speech and study guide asking students what they can do for President Obama, the administration toned it down.  The president read a good speech with a focus on personal responsibility, staying in school, and setting goals.  He told schoolchildren to look to the future and use school as a way to succeed no matter what your background.  This is a message all parents need to re-enforce with their children.

Watch this panel on Today’s THV:

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I urge members of the Obama Administration to step off the health care stage and into the crowd, that “angry mob” they refer to is a growing number of Americans who want to slow down and take part in the health care debate.  One step off the podium will show them this is anything but an “astroturf effort.”  This is zoyzia, it’s real, it’s hearty, and can tolerate the heat.

Chairman of the Blue Dog Democrats health care task force, Cong. Mike Ross (D-AR) along with  Cong. Vic Snyder (D-AR) faced some harsh critics at a health care forum in Arkansas.  Passionate voters said Washington has turned a deaf ear for too long, and they’re forced to turn up the volume.

Critics shouted their concerns about losing control of their health care choices. One urged congress to vote down any public option health plan, saying “we need to open it up to the free market and get the government the hell out of it.”

 Members of congress should take offense to President Obama telling them that if they don’t have a deadline, they can’t get anything done.    In his fourth prime time news conference of his administration, President Obama continued to poke and prod of members of Congress into quick action on healthcare.   The problem with this prescription, the administration needs to realize that to carry out a complete overhaul of our health care system, it’s more important to get it done ‘right’ than ‘right now.

Another inspiring teleprompter-driven Obamacare speech, mixed with some questions from the media, and nothing new to show for it.  It was more of the same, and many are still asking the same questions about cost, choice, and coverage for our elected officials.  When the president was pressed for details, he reverted to his talk of little blue pills, red pills, and sore throats.

The president dodged the cost question by saying, “before we talk about how to pay for it, let's talk about what exactly needs to be done.”