Much as it drove me nuts, Bill Clinton was able to remain in office and be effective, able to survive impeachment in fact, because he knew the wisdom of keeping high approval numbers. He largely managed this through relentless polling to determine what people wanted. Then either he or his wife would go out and promise it. I’d love to see a list of all the programs he promised while staving off removal from office. The key to his success was that as long as he was popular his own party stood by him.

Obama doesn’t get it. And I believe he will pay the price for that failure just as Bush didn’t get it and paid the price. Well, actually, the Republicans and American people paid the price for his low approval numbers at the end. We’d all be better off if he'd bothered to care and made an effort.

With his low numbers Obama is going to find himself very limited in what he can do for one simple reason: he will have few friends among Democrats in Congress. It will be a rude awakening when it occurs. If you don’t want to ask Bush just remember Nixon.

Read it and weep. Coakley isn't just corrupt in the usual political way but in on a level that is all but incomprehensible.

http://bigjournalism.com/ghewson/2010/01/19/on-election-day-a-citizen-journalist-reminds-martha-coakley-uncle-hurt-me/

Victor Davis Hanson on next year.

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/on-the-horizon/

Here is Greg Gutfeld on the Global Warming fiasco. Catch him nightly on Fox at Redeye, the most entertaining way to get the big events. Here's the pay quote, "Activists tell us that man-caused CO2 is creating global warming. However, only 3 percent of CO2 comes from people. The rest comes from oceans, [and] animals... So how come you don't hear about that? Because, you can't say that man is destroying the planet, once you realize man's impact is nil."

Get it? Three percent comes from us and to minimize that we are preparing to destroy our economy.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,579722,00.html

Those caught lying and cheating in Climategate are the go-to guys.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6679082/Climate-change-this-is-the-worst-scientific-scandal-of-our-generation.html

From Politico, seven stories Obama doesn't want told. Politico is a bunch of lefties trying to pass themselves off as centrists so when they criticise it means something.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=4486A8EE-18FE-70B2-A8143B2A4DFA6780

Here's a new popular video on the so far unreported scandal. Hide the Decline - Climategate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk