The basic difference is that most folks see innovation as a brainstorming approach whereby you generate solutions then find problemsfor them to solve verses the more successful UCD style approaches that focus on redefining the problem, first.
And your hope is that once this election is over, the folks you choose to represent you will put the politics aside for a while, and work together to solveproblems.
That's said, I think to the point, Neal, that you made about holding votes to score points as opposed to solveproblems - you know, both parties have paid the price for that.
But when they start characterizing this as pork without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package -- something again that was pretty rare over the last eight years -- then you get a feeling that maybe we're playing politics instead of actually trying to solveproblemsfor the American people.