"He said he was “shellacked” and now the media elites say he’s back, emerging from electoral defeat with a taste of victory. “He went from shellacking to swashbuckling” wrote Dana Milbank. “Obama accomplished something not seemingly possible – starting the 112th Congress on a level playing field” said Charles Krauthammer. And, of course, Barack Obama, our ever-so-humble Commander-in-Chief, claimed it to be “the most productive post-election period we’ve had in decades.”
“It was pretty wide and fairly deep.” That is the media’s description of the legislative session that followed the huge Republican victory that still ripples through the body-politic, prompting numerous Democratic office-holders to switch to the Republican Party. Predictably, the real story of Mr. Obama’s magical rejuvenation has not been reported, principally because it hasn’t happened."
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