BILLY: IT'S HIGH TIME A BLOG ABOUT BEING 'SMARTER' TRY TO FIGURE OUT ALL THIS HEALTH CARE COMBAT!!

GREG: MORE TO THE POINT – WHAT THE COMBAT SAYS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S WEB ARMY!! ALSO, I NEVER LIKED YOUR SHIRTS OR SHOES!!!

BILLY: WELL, ONE DAY YOU'LL HAVE TO STAND BEFORE A DUDS PANEL IN YOUR GOOFY GET-UPS, TOO!!!

Ok, we'll turn it down – we've all had enough of the hollering. Still, it is fascinating to see how different the political discourse is today compared to how it was imagined by many pundits six months ago. The Prez's net roots army was supposed control the national debate as tightly as Donald Trump locks down his hair. Instead, just the opposite is true. The political process is, at the moment, in the clenched fists of old fashioned event activists – namely the people raising hell at health care town halls. This follows the widely covered Tea Parties of the spring, which were also widely derided, but still a force to be reckoned with.

So what happened to the Web revolution in policy-making promised by so many media mavens? Maybe the real key to political persuasion isn't technology but passion. The right seems as fired up about putting the kibosh on health care as the left did about electing Obama. And so, they 'own' the story. Passion is a forever-swinging pendulum.

Much of the health care story is still playing out on the Web. Sarah Palin's comments on 'death panels,' distributed exclusively on Facebook, caused a sensation – and helped her sign up more supporters. Such comments might have attracted just as much initial attention delivered in a press release or on the stump, but they achieve greater longevity when we can forward and tweet them.

At a certain point, all of this runaway commotion hits a small funnel. We're not a direct democracy. Our structure as a republic means that to be effective all the commenting, signing-up, tweeting and, in this case, yelling has to make a difference to the people we elected. For now, the exclamation!! points fly!!! But how the story ends is still an open question. What we know for sure is that the future of political discourse is nowhere near as certain as it appeared just a couple hundred days ago. And you know what? That's America!