Obama: One Termer?

I had an interesting conversation with a good friend last night and amongst other topics covered was how Obama has really seemed to lose his footing over the summer, and has worked himself into an awkward position going into what will likely be one of the most important legislative huddles of his presidency. The administration has seemed out-of-whack lately. What was once a cool group of young, hip, bright politicos (albeit for the first 3 months of the presidency) has become a bumbling and stumbling loose grouping of inexperienced staffers. I think it all began with the President's loose-lips on Henry Louis Gates-gate. What is quickly becoming a mismanaged health care reform push surely isn't helping morale. The newly revised and truly staggering deficit projections for this next year from the CBO will surely deal another serious blow to an administration that is already limping. For the first time I have started to think that Obama might be a one-term president.

This will only become a possibility if Republicans become effective dissenters and offer sensible policies and alternative solutions to what are real and significant national issues.