Oh, believe me, the president got a message...I saw his news conference and it is apparent!
That is how it will be played by the media and that is how the political alignment in Washington will play it. Your individual protest was not a distinction with any difference, and therefore it lost any particular value you intended it to have. It will be have the same value, by everyone in Washington D.C., as a vote for Nancy Pelosi; no matter what you wanted it to say. The reality of how your vote was and will be read, is in the result, not in your motivations. The only thing you told Bush was that you want Nacy Pelosi and her agenda to lead the Congress.