What's Going On?

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This is America, Right?! Where we are entitled to opposing opinions, where we are free to voice our opinions... Why are people acting as if elections no longer matter? When an election takes place, the winner (who apparently represents the majority) then attempts to make good on campaign promises... Instead of working together compromise is now a career ending process in politics and extremists are growing in unsettling numbers, or so it seems.

And why aren't these actions being denounced by every member of congress?

WHAT IS GOING ON????

HCR

When I returned home Sunday night, I was welcomed by the sight of the electric company trying to turn the lights back on in my area....with no cable, and a laptop dead how was I going to witness the health care reform vote that I had been anticipating? Not too worry, after a trip to Wal-Mart to kill the time I arrived back home to the beautiful sight of lights!

So, I plugged up my HP and logged onto CNN to watch the live coverage and onto Twitter to view the reactions. I tweeted at one point that I felt hopeful, not only because health reform had passed the House but because of the TT (Trending Topics) on Twitter! (For those of you not familiar to the lingo - a TT is what everyone seems to be tweeting about) One after the other, tweet after tweet funny, mean, compelling comments and statements about what was taking place in our nation's capital. Regardless of the content whether substantive or irrelevant, we at least were paying attention...which is HUGE plus for the future of America.
In other MAJOR news! Health Care Reform has passed...ushering in a new day in America. There is still much to be done as it relates to health care, ie. personal responsibility among other things, but at least we finally took this step! So, I say GO AMERICA, GO!
And shout outs to the Twam (Twitter Family) who made HCR (Health Care Reform) a TT (Trending Topic) and maybe proved that we aren't as nonchalant or jaded by the nastiness that has become of our politics as the media would chose to insinuate.
This night of history has strengthened my optimism : )

But, one more thing...While on Twitter I ReTweeted a comment by Rachel Maddow "House under Pelosi has now passed stimulus, cap and trade, wall street reform, and health reform." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deserves special recognition.