"MAN OF THE DAY".

If America should choose "The Man of the Day", after last Thursday night, it would be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, for his bold remarks to cooperate with most of the sentiments expressed by the president in his speech.

He was the person, who ruined several of President Barack Obama's days during the debt ceiling and deficit reduction debates, with opposing arguments and counter proposals to almost any suggestion that came out of the president's mouth.

He and Speaker of The House of Representatives John Boehner showed a different attitude after the president's speech to the joint session of the U.S. Congress, with such positiveness, that they were willing to work with those ideas that were put forward in the speech.

They demonstrated that they understood what real leadership was about, and that not everything was objectionable to the Congressional Republican Party members; but if some proposals were reasonable, then there would be no need to hold them back.

The president's speech was about job creation, to reduce the high rate of unemployment, which stood at 9.1%.

The country's economy was running at a very slow pace, and if something was not done to give it a boost, the end result would affect every person in the country in so many negative ways.

He was urging Congress to pass a bill based on the premise that an emergency existed, which everyone knew about, and it has to be dealt with almost instantaneously; and the crust of his speech to members of Congress would be that there was no more time to delay. The situation was so dire, it required a quick and urgent solution.

He could have sat in the Oval Office and delivered the speech; but its impact would not be the same as looking straight in the eyes of those who represented the whole nation and held the ultimate responsibility of making laws to address the nation's problems; and that if they saw the red in his own eyes, they would take action.

All that was lacking was cooperation between the White House and Congress; for after all, members were not there to defend "party ideology". They were there to attend to the nation's business.

The comments that came from the two opposition leaders after the president's speech were encouraging. They showed that there was no enmity between them and the president, when it came to dealing with important issues affecting America's national interests; and that the economy, which was being stifled by an acute unemployment situation, was a vital national interest.

Their ardent and immediate responsibility now was to convince other party members to "tow the line".

The hope of all citizens would be that the Democratic Party and the Republican Party would find a common ground to get the country out of its present economic quagmire, by putting life into what was said in the president's presentation; with all their members joining in the effort of passing a bill that would clear the way for an economic prosperity for all to become a reality.

The nation awaits.