After the "shellacking" Democrats took at the polls, President Obama has vowed to find ways to compromise with Republicans. But Obama says voters were not rejecting his agenda — they were merely expressing frustration over the economy, and the fact that the Democrats' policies had not fixed it faster. Is Obama right, or is he ignoring the most important message of the midterm elections? (Watch Obama's post-elections address)
The man is in denial: "President Obama still doesn't get it," say the editors of The Washington Times. Voters have just delivered "the most stunning rebuke to an incumbent president in 72 years" — a clear rejection of Obama's bailouts, his failed $1 trillion stimulus, his "kowtowing" to our enemies, and the rest of his "leftist" agenda. But "even after this week's shellacking, the president refuses to listen."
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