The 38-year-old former Florida Speaker of the House is a bundle of energy. He's challenging Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican primary to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Mel Martinez, and his ascent has caught a lot of people by surprise.
Writer Dennis Kneale sees Obama's drive to get ObamaCare passed somewhat like Ahab and his obsessed pursuit of Moby Dick, the whale. And the writer sees other problems with the proposed health legislation.
Michael Barone: "It's beginning to look like the goal of health care legislation was a bridge too far. There's a reason it's hard to pass unpopular legislation on party-line votes. It's not the Senate rules. It's called democracy."
Forty-three percent (43%) ''Strongly Disapprove'' giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this president.
Concerning Obama, Simon Heffer wrote: ''His lack of experience, his dependence on rhetoric rather than action, his disconnection from the lives of many millions of Americans all handicap him heavily. It is not about whose advice he is taking: it is about him grasping what is wrong with America, and finding the will to put it right.''
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