captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. president obama demanded a final up or down vote on health care reform. ifill: and i m gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, democrats are ready to force action without bipartisan support. we ll have excerpts of the president s speech, and analysis from ceci connolly of the washington post and congress watcher norm ornstein. lehrer: then, two political stories. the first in new york where two top democrats are embroiled in ethics problems governor david paterson and house ways and means chairman charles rangel. ifill: and political tale number two from texas, where governor rick perry beat longtime senator kay bailey hutchison in yesterday s republican gubernatorial primary. texas voters said no. they said no to washington bureaucrats making decisions that state leaders and citizens should be making for themselves. lehrer: then, tom bearden reports on special courts that gi