Daily Democratic Wire 1-21-2010

George Wenschhof

Today, President Barack Obama is still regrouping from the ramifications of Republican Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts on Tuesday - the first statement the President made was that Congress should not act on health care until Brown was seated and the second was let's try to come together on the points in the health care legislation everyone agrees on. Hello? Mr. President, the leadership needs to be a little stronger than this. Even progressive Paul Krugman is questioning the lack of leadership by Obama. You can read his comments here.

A bit of trivia on voter registration in Massachusetts left unreported throughout this special election for the late Ted Kennedy Senate seat - 43% of the state's registered voters are "Uncommitted/Other", 42% are registered Democrats, and only 15% are registered Republicans. The final results were close with only 100,000 separating the two candidates with over 2.2 million votes cast. Doubtful another state has "Uncommitted/Other" leading in voter registration.

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The question hanging over President Obama at the end of his first year in office is "What went wrong?" - it is obvious that in spite of the many accomplishments which have transpired since he was sworn into office, the success stories are not being replayed in the media. Regrouping is necessary, especially in light of the continued 10% unemployment in spite of a 787 billion stimulus bill. Politico.com has a good read here and Time.com has an interview with the President discussing his first year here. Finally, Howard Fineman has some advise on how the President can turn things around. MSNBC.com has it here.

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Ruling by Supreme Court on Campaign Financing may come today - this has to do with corporate and pac financing relating to a video on then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that was blocked from being aired by the FEC. The Washington post has more here.

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John Edwards admits he is Father to former mistress's child - the severe fall from grace is now complete for the former 2004 Democratic VP candidate. In a statement to NBC Today, he said he was the father of Quinn Hunter. TheHill.com has more here.

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