I won't be able to watch all the shows because we are heading to Nashville for me to play at the Bluebird cafe tonight. But, I have been watching Meet the Press and I just have to comment on Republican Sen. Coburn from Oklahoma. Shame on him! Shame on him!

Coburn winked and nodded and absolutely did not condemn the threats of extreme violence, including gun violence as signified by a "protester" outside the president's New Hampshire health care forum with a gun strapped to his leg holding a poster with the "shake the tree of liberty" phrase, an out of context use of the Jefferson quote which is now a code for violence, as demonstrated by Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Coburn should have unequivocally condemned violence, but neither he nor Dick Armey did so. It is totally shameful and hypocritical, and unAmerican if you ask me. If there is actually violence brought against any of our elected officials for trying to reform our ailing health care system, then the blood will be on the hands of people like Coburn, who should be standing up against it. Of course, Coburn, and those like him, throw the book at a protester who locks themselves to a log skidder clearcutting a national forest, or climbs a smokestack spewing out pollution to hang a banner saying to clean it up. That's the Coburn/republican hypocricy.

David Gregory allowed Coburn and Armey to have too much time, and while Rachel Maddow held her own, I feel certain that a measure of the time on camera would show that she got the least time of anyone. But all in all, I think it was a pretty good debate. Coburn and Armey showed clearly that they are in the pockets of the health care industry as it currently stands, and are trying to block any reform. Tom Daschle showed a lot of knowledge about the subject, but he used too much lingo which the average person isn't going to understand. He needs to find even simpler ways to explain what is going on.