Happy Anniversary, Mr. President

It will be the one year anniversary of Barack Obama's inauguration tomorrow. Pete Wehner notes it has been a tough and disappointing year for the new president. But he has earned his high negative polls numbers by failing to be what he promised during the campaign: a post-partisan uniter, uncontaminated by the special interests in Washington, D.C.

“We have something very special here,” Obama’s top political aide Axelrod is quoted (in the new book "Game Change") as saying. “I feel like I’ve been handed a porcelain baby.” Axelrod tells Obama — dubbed by his aides as the “Black Jesus” — that voters were looking for “a president who can bring the country together, who can reach beyond partisanship, and who’ll be tough on special interests.”

That was what we were promised. What we got instead is a president who increased the divisions in our nation, the most partisan and polarizing figure in the history of polling, one who is dogmatic and has been as generous to special interests as any we have seen. The efforts to buy votes in pursuit of the Obama agenda has added sewage to the cesspool.