Only 23 percent of Pennsylvania voters think  Sen. Arlen Specter deserves re-election. And Obama’s approval rating in the state is the lowest of his presidency — 45 percent.

Not a good way to celebrate his six-month anniversary as a Democrat (well, a Democrat after he was a Republican after he was a Democrat).

“Beyond disgraceful” is how Charles Krauthammer describes Obama’s “child-like” fixation on blaming George W. Bush for all his failings, specifically the lack of an Afghanistan war strategy.

Rich Lowry cautions against overinterpreting the importance of the NY-23 race. But one lesson, if Scozzafava goes down, is that the stamp of approval from Beltway Republicans carries no weight — and may be a drag on a conservative candidate. Perhaps 2010 and 2012 will see an end to the silly process of collecting endorsements from other politicians.

Mitt Romney won’t endorse Dede Scozzafava but doesn’t actually endorse conservative Doug Hoffman as Sarah Palin and then Tim Pawlenty did. Newt Gingrich continues digging a hole with the conservative base on the subject.

The headline reads: “Biden popularity fades as role expands.” Hillary Clinton is the opposite, no?

Robert Gibbs met with a Fox News exec. Wouldn’t the latter want the White House to keep up its rating-enhancing vendetta?

Another not-very-enamored-of-Israel appointee is selected by Obama. At what point (Chas Freeman? Mary Robinson? Sending James Jones to J Street? Chuck Hagel?) is it clear where the administration’s sympathies are? Well, never, at least for the most devoted followers of the “Torah of Liberalism.”

The Creigh Deeds wake is starting early.

Quin Hillyer cites chapter and verse on Obama’s non-transparency.

Daniel Henninger on big-government, old-style health-care reform: “If we were really living in the world of leading-edge politics that many people thought they were getting with Barack Obama, he would have proposed an iPhone for health care—a flexible system for which all sorts of users could create or choose health-care apps that suited their needs. Over time, with trial and error, a better system would emerge. No chance of that. … What ObamaCare is doing with health care—the ‘public option’—may be fine with the activist left, but I suspect it’s starting to strike many younger Americans as at odds with their lives, as not somewhere they want to go.”

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