From the Obama folk:

Steve –

On Wednesday night, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, President Obama is delivering a major address on health insurance reform to a special joint session of Congress. It’ll be a historic event — and a turning point in our push for real reform. So we’ve organized special watch parties that night for all Organizing for America supporters, their friends, neighbors, and families — and a local volunteer has decided to host one in your area. We’ll gather together to hear directly from the President.

And after the speech, everyone at these parties will be able to take part in an important conference call with former Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe about the work we’ll still need to do to help pass real reform this year. Will you come to a watch party during the President’s address on Wednesday evening?

No, actually, I will not.

I will watch it in the privacy of my own home, in my own head, and make a decision. Either the President will show some nads and stand up for what he believes in, or he will fold under pressure for the sake of a single Republican vote.

And the next day, I will form my own opinion on that speech, based on what I saw and what I read – rather than some group think that’s supposed to make me feel better.

This is an important moment.

I tire of weak Democrats folding to fringe Republicans.

I long for a calm center and a President strong enough to make it happen.

It will either happen tomorrow, or it won’t.

But I’m not going to have a party while it all goes down.