Thomas Friedman of The New York Times thinks the enlightened despots who rule China are getting it right, while the people we elect to lead us are getting it wrong. Friedman is not the first intellectual to admire the ability of totalitarian regimes to get things done from his safe perch as a citizen of a messy democracy.

Dick Morris thinks that the real problem facing Democrats on the issue of health reform, which the President is trying to salvage with a speech to a joint session of Congress, is that the elderly understand that his reforms will inevitably be paid for by transferring resources from care for the elderly to covering younger, healthier, but currently uninsured people. This is why the poll numbers for the Democrats in the older demographics is deteriorating.

Michael Gerson believes Obama is taking a page from the Jimmy Carter playbook. That would be unwise, in my estimation.