I have watched some of the grandiosely titled “Health Care Summit” at Blair House this morning, and I have to say that while there is plenty more time to go, my initial concerns about Republican participation have largely been allayed. Obama treats the presidency as performance art. I was worried that the Republicans [...]

Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh’s announcement yesterday that he will not seek re-election to the Indiana Senate seat he has held for two terms sent another wave of panic through Democratic ranks. Even the MSM now has to admit the obvious: control of the U.S. Senate is legitimately in play in 2010. Democrats face uphill [...]

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Sarah Palin dominated the news this weekend with a flurry of appearances, from her keynote speech to the Tea Party national convention in Nashville, campaigning for Governor Rick Perry in Texas, and an appearance on Fox News Sunday, her first Sunday morning interview. With Obama’s job approval in the mid-to-upper 40s and Democrats nervous [...]

Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago today to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes.
Massachusetts—in a huge turnout of over [...]

In 2008, after splitting the Super Tuesday primaries with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton revived her flagging presidential campaign with a hard-hitting television ad in which she questioned whether Barack Obama was ready to be president. The ad’s dramatic hook was a hypothetical 3 a.m. phone call to the White House during a national security [...]

Joe Lieberman
Democrats’ attempt to pass health care reform in the U.S. Senate prior to Christmas took a major blow over the weekend when Senator Joe Lieberman announced in an interview and in a private meeting with Senate Majority Harry Reid that he would not support the Reid-Obama bill in its current form. That leaves Reid [...]

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With the release of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin has officially become the Rorschach test of American politics. Like a political inkblot, impressions about her reveal far more about the individual than they do about her. Grassroots conservatives love her; the far-left and liberal media abhor her. Since they can’t control [...]

Tuesday’s election results were a disaster for the White House and the Democratic Party. Not only did the Obama coalition of young voters and minorities not return to the polls (African-American turnout fell from 20 to 16 percent of the electorate in Virginia, for example, while the youth vote fell by 50% from 2008), [...]

We’ve always been told that the right was dominated by “angry white men.” That now appears to be a misnomer.
On the eve of the 2009 elections, two angry white men have worked themselves into a froth. Both are liberals. Frank Rich, former New York Times theater critic and “butcher of Broadway” now [...]

Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress this week came as his health care plan was dying a slow death on Capitol Hill, the victim of a newly emboldened Republican opposition that has suddenly found its backbone and red-state and Blue Dog Democrats who went wobbly after a hot August of town hall [...]

In an op ed in USA Today, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer call the protests at health care town hall meetings “un-American.” This was after Pelosi suggested that the opponents of Obamacare might have Nazi tendencies. These are remarkable attacks on fellow Americans, especially given then-candidate, now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s earlier protestation that debate and protest against “any administration” should never be labeled un-patriotic.

I knew when the “Today” show led one day this week with the story of the custody dispute involving Michael Jackson’s surviving children that the NBC/WSJ poll must portend very bad news for the mainstream media. Sure enough, when “Today” finally got to the story—-18 minutes later, after the weather, news updates, and a story about a murder preceded by a warning to shoo children away from the television—-no amount of spin could change the cold fact: Obama’s numbers were dropping precipitously and health care was the reason why.

The Obama health care plan appears to be suffering a slow bleed. It is still early, and presidents who have control of both houses of Congress by the large margins that Obama has are still capable of exerting enormous pressure and twisting arms to secure unlikely legislative victories.