This is the concluding paragraph from an article in today's Nathional Post written by Conrad Black:

It has been a rocky start. All depends on whether the President is sufficiently flexible to recognize and adjust to changing political facts. There is time and need for much intelligent legislation, and Americans like their presidents to succeed. But he can’t raise his poll numbers any more by hand-catching house-flies on television. The time for ponderous daily speeches has passed, and the time to take hold and govern has come, and the best quarter of the mandate has already been spent with little to show for it.