Respectfully, I think you completely missed my point, and I know how congress works.

Barack is asking for bi-partisan cooperation in both the house and senate (influence), and trying to feed that to America. Stuff like this video shows is still going on. As long as Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House, there will be no bi-partisan anything. So unless Obama's ideals agree with her leftist-douche agenda, there will be no bipartisan legislature being passed. Thus my comment about Barack having no control over what happens in both the house and Senate is accurate in both the analytical viewpoint you brought up, and my insenuating that there will be no "Change" in the way the Democratic party runs over our freedoms. Let's face it... It will be the same worthless 6 years we had in congress leading to this fiasco, which currently has an 85% dis-approval rate. In order for Barack to fulfill his promise to Americans for bipartisanship, Nancy's got to go.