Will Obama learn from Clinton?

I'm hoping he doesn't. Right now the Democrats are falling as fast as the Republicans after Watergate.

Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' special Senate election was for Democratic leaders a moment that can be described in two words, of which I will only print the first here, which is "oh."

Left-wing bloggers, liberal columnists and the stray Nobel Prize winner-turned polemicist are all urging Democrats in Congress to pass, somehow, some way, a health care bill, and many of them are calling for a second and even larger stimulus bill.

But Democrats in Congress are replying, as politicians are wont to do when challenged by party wingers, that their name is on the ballot. New York Times editorialists can opine that the Massachusetts result had nothing to do with opposition to health care, but their life's work is not in peril.

Democratic officeholders know theirs is. Some are heading for the hills. Four well-regarded veteran congressmen announced their surprise retirements in December; two longtime Democratic senators folded in January. Family concerns have suddenly become very pressing.

If Obama was smart, and I'm not so sure he has much common sense, he would take a lesson from Bill Clinton. After the Republicans took the House back in 1994 Clinton moved towards the center from his far left wing agenda that crippled the Democrats. But I think Obama is much more arrogant, as I've wrote before, than Bill Clinton ever was.

I have a feeling Obama isn't going to move towards the center. He is going to move even further to the left and try to damage the country even greater.

We will see how Obama wishes to move his administration tonight in his State of the Union address.