Obama might be a one term President because he his blind, tone deaf and stubborn. You can’t make a deal with people who undermine you and want you to fail. If you are in the power position, which Obama is, you NEVER give up anything to someone who offers nothing. If Obama would just drop the hammer on Congress and use the majority American gave him he might just become a great President. Obama must realize that right now he is just the republicans bitch.

Then fight to accomplish it the right way, i.e., with a strong public option.

The man has been in office, what, seven months? And they're already saying it's over?

Tell me what you think here: To me, it seems like it's easy to make dire, "Obama is a badass risk-taker who will put it all on the line for his ideals" statements like these when the reality is that the public attention span is so short, all Obama really has to do is to do something popular in the last few months before the election to win people over. It feels like, this early on in his administration, there's not really a huge amount on the line. So statements like these are just bluffs.

Say wha? I mean, what an idiotic thing to say. If he loses the House or Senate next year (primarily because of Democratic disgust with his inaction on many of his campaign promises) he'll be lucky if he can get squat done.

So, if he gets nothing done.. two terms, right?

Barack Obama will make a comeback. That's his MO, or perhaps his mojo.

Whether his comeback can pull the Congress up is another point. He staked out what he was going to do his first 100 days. He did it for the most part and then he handed some leadership off to Congress, where they quickly:
a: laid out a cogent and succinct agenda defining their political priorities.
or
b: went after each other over how much time to spend flogging the Bushes.

I really think the Dems should put out a resolution on the broad principles they favor. Nothing complicated. How about let's find out haw many Democrats actually support the 2008 Democratic Party's Platform, for example. Just lay out some of the planks for legislative priority, abbreviate them, give them a name, pass them and lay out their priorities for the People to judge.

Newt's group did this with the Contract for America. It gave coherence to the legislative agenda. They managed to use the moment following their legislative success to define what they had achieved electorally with a political document.

Carpe Diem!

Without some significant "change" of his own, he just might get there.