We now have continued losses in the markets, embarrassment of our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic, a “dis” of our closest ally, Great Britain, Russia making us look stupid … all in a period of only two months. And add to that Hillary’s gaffes with the Russian Reset Button and not getting the names of European ministers right and they end up looking like buffoons.

The Democratic Party leadership isn’t helping matters either. They are attempting to pin the blame for the current budget on the Bush administration when Bush threatened to veto it and so Congress never handed the budget to Bush to begin with. Now they have painted Obama into a corner by giving him a budget loaded with earmarks only months after he promised he was going to get rid of earmarks.

Obama either has to infuriate the political leadership of the party or infuriate the people. He is basically in a lose-lose situation and being forced to pick between which is the most harmful. All the while it is becoming socially acceptable to start criticizing the administration.

After consistently scoring a 59 or 60 percent approval rating in the Rasmussen Survey for at least the last couple of weeks, Obama has begun to drop and has been at 56 percent approval for the last two days, with 43 percent now disapproving. “Strong” approvers now outnumber “strong” disapprovers 39 to 31 percent. So after only six weeks, 70 percent of the electorate already has strong feelings about our new President, pro or con.