President Obama seems to be losing his cool. Yesterday, he went out and met the press to answer questions about the tax cut deal and ended up ranting about those ungrateful liberals who are bashing him because he had to give in to those hostage-taking Republicans. I am more convinced than ever that this man is a narcissist, and may very well go down in history as one of the weakest and most dangerous men ever to be elected President.

Speaking of losing one's cool, go to the National Review website and scroll down to the Kieth Olbermann video. Olbermann's anti-Obama rant (he compares him to Neville Chamberlain, of all people) is epic, and I think it accurately expresses the nearly apoplectic anger on the left against Obama.

Michael Barone believes Obama is now on the verge of becoming Jimmy Carter. Carter, you will recall, ended up angering the left in his own party so much that Ted Kennedy took a run at him in the primaries. If Kennedy had not done such a disastrous job in the Howard Mudd interview he might have won the nomination. In any event, Carter was annihilated by Reagan in the general. Will we see a repetition in 2012? There is no one of Kennedy's stature that the left can rally around, but I would not be surprised to see someone give it a go. Of course, there is no one of Reagan's stature on the Republican side, either, but they will have to nominate someone.

John Podhoretz has this reaction to Obama's press conference.

Tony Blankley says White House strategists are debating whether the President ought to use the Harry Truman strategy of 1946-48 or the Bill Clinton strategy of 1994-96. Both men faced a devastating repudiation of their party during the mid-term. Clinton moved to the center, while Truman fought the GOP by ferociously defending the FDR legacy. This, of course, is a different era. I would argue that the reason Truman won by going left while Clinton won by going right is that a majority of the vast middle and working class constituency of the country was still in favor of the New Deal approach in the late 1940s (and all the way into the late 1960s), but had drifted away from that viewpoint by the 1990s. Future historians will see Obama's election as a fluke, especially after he is repudiated in 2012.