Um, hysteria?

Where do you see hysteria? His speech was nice and what I would hope parents would say to their children. But I don't think for a minute that in large part, it was cover for the news of the day, and intended to make headlines for the 36ish hours prior to his speech last night to take the cameras off of Pelosi and crew. The media didn't focus on their return to work that day. Given that they seem to have a negative impact on the health care debate and the administration's agenda, if they could orchestrate things so that Obama controlled the news cycle for the first day they were back, and then he could give a speech re-setting the tone he wanted on the next day, it was a win-win for him.

Anyone who doesn't give him credit for that brilliant bit of strategy underestimates his skill as a politician.