"What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you’re learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future." Those were President Obama's words to school children around the Country this morning as he addressed a crowd of 1400 at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA. The speech was the culmination of a week long of criticism from some on the right who feared that the President would try to indoctrinate their children with his "socialist" ideology.

When President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress next Wednesday it won't simply be his most contentious night in the House chamber, it will also determine whether or not the Democrats will be able to reclaim the health care debate in order to pass some sort of reform. In order to do that the President is going to need to get back to the basics and explain, in painfully clear detail, what exactly he wants this reform to be. Then he needs to go out and force Congress to deliver him that piece of legislation.

Sounds likes a piece of cake, right?

Okay, so at this point everyone has said some things they wish they could take back. If Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer could, I imagine they might have rethought their wording in that USA Today op-ed. Calling our opponents in this debate "un-American" might be taking it a step too far, even if their actions do undercut the democratic process. On the other side of the aisle, Former Governor Palin's statements about the health care bill having "death panels" have since been thoroughly debunked with experts on the subject calling her opinion "exaggerated and misunderstood."