View of the speech

Rich Lowry says it best:

...please don't bother me with your inconvenient Congressional Budget Office reports, with your tiresome concerns about ballooning government in an era of exploding debt, with your facts -- yes, the House bill would end up covering abortion -- that I prefer to deny.

Now is the time for all good men to vote with me or get out of the way.

Obama mouthed his usual platitudes about drawing ideas from Republicans and seeking common ground.