As Congress.org shows at its webpage linking to messaging what readers want to tell their officials to make priorities, many pols Left and Right know what THE priorities of Congress MUST be, paramount to all other things or America will be dead in the water, no change possible.

Bill Frist wants the same socialized healthcare the Left does, his only twist appearing to be he and close-helds could own any stock the government doesn't glom on to.

Colin Powell knows the priority is NOT defense, NOT jobs, NOT worries over credit and mortgages, NOT Constitutional functionings, but "the children"...most of whom for years are being taught, essentially, that the world of internet device/movie/television screens is the real world, all else they can see being the false one; most young folks today "know" that life is all about people in managed jobless, equity-free, credit-only "habitrail" New Urban communities, and that we're all like on "Survivor" where anyone on earth can enter and those who don't fit are cast out, the point being to become annointed like an Oprah, American Idol, or other icon du jour on the aforesaid sacred screens.  

And so it goes with most pundits and personalities. We have a government who increasingly owns credit companies, credit reporters, property, healthcare...sure sounds like Socialism, not convincingly overcome that in totalist style some ownership stock is given to "those out of government" yet curiously on "retirement" pay thereof and in sitting officials' inner circles. Worse, government is leaning toward letting us have for worship (for those who choose Deism) only religious groups funded by government, and which too often tend to have a Calvinist or Puritan vision of "some people are vessels of wrath no matter good they do, so don't worry what happens to THEM".