A few weeks ago, I wrote a post pontificating on the reasons Barack Obama would not and could not emulate Bill Clinton in how the latter dealt with the loss of Congress to the Republicans in his first mid-term election.

Nothing in Barack Obama's history has every prepared him to doubt himself, to consider the possibility that his opinions had nothing short of divine approval.

Democrats don't tell black men that they're wrong.

Today, Barack Obama confirmed me as a fine judge of men.

Obama said, "folks in Washington are in a little bit of a frenzy" over Republican Scott Brown's election to the seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, which has ended the president's 60-seat supermajority in the chamber. But the president vowed to keep battling for health care reform, even as he bluntly conceded that he's facing major roadblocks.

"Now, we've gotten pretty far down the road, but I have to admit, we've run into a bit of a buzzsaw along the way," Obama said. "The long process of getting things done runs headlong into the special interests, their armies of lobbyists and partisan politics aimed at exploiting fears instead of getting things done."

No "the era of big government is over" here, and I doubt we'll hear anything like that during the State of the Union.

Instead we get defiance and an enemies list (although I doubt he uses yellow legal pads...).

This is not going to end well.