A President should know he is in trouble when ...

Cheri Jacobus:

Presidential petulance was on full display this week.

When 56 percent of the American people disapprove of the job you are doing, you’ve got a problem. When you’re the president of the United States and 56 percent of the American people disapprove of your job performance, you’ve got an enormous problem.

With 63 percent of Americans chomping at the bit to elect a Congress that will repeal your signature legislative “accomplishment” — healthcare reform — barely two months after you signed it into law, it should serve as a red flag that perhaps you are heading in the wrong direction.

When almost every candidate you throw your presidential support behind loses, and your problem appears to be spreading faster than germs in a preschool, a bit of political soul-searching may in order. And it’s hard to ignore that creeping sense your presidency is about to come under siege by a potentially explosive scandal surrounding a White House job offer to a certain Pennsylvania Democratic congressman as a bribe to drop his Senate primary bid against a certain Pennsylvania Democratic senator.

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Sen. Olympia Snow (R-Maine) told the press, “Their [the White House’s] bipartisanship generally consists of ‘Can we have your vote for our bill?’ ” Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) expressed wariness in working with Obama after initially attempting compromise on key issues. And Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) infamous temper erupted as he took the president to task for misrepresenting the new Arizona illegal-immigration law and sending aides out to trash the law, without even reading it.

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She seems to catch the Obama style. Obviously, Obama is not very good at building consensus and compromise, nor does he seem to care about the will of the people. For that reason he is being rejected more and more and has the poll numbers to prove it.