Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer are two of my favorite commentators. Each has a special ability to cut through the periphery of an issue and get straight to the heart of it.

Mr. Hanson wields his scalpel on the perfect storm that enabled President Obama's election and the bitter truths that have followed in which realities are trumping illusions. Regarding the Obama Administration's reaction to opposition, he writes:

His opposition is no longer ossified, but decentralized and grass roots. One of the oddest proofs of that statement is the sudden leftist furor at tea parties, town halls, the media, dissent, and free speech. As long as Obama was opposed by calcified Republicans in Congress, there was no real danger to him. But once the opposition proved populist, panicked liberal elites started demonizing populism — and Obama now finds himself opposed to the popular grievance-mongering that was once the mother’s milk of our Chicago organizer’s existence.

Mr. Krauthammer dissects the almost unbelievable effort by Obama and his minions to marginalize Fox News, which has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined, and which has a more evenly spread viewership (roughly split among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents) than either. After all, says Mr. Krauthammer:

Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical — and that doesn’t even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

Fox and its viewers (numbering more than CNN’s and MSNBC’s combined) need no defense. Defend Fox compared to whom? To CNN — which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a Saturday Night Live skit mildly critical of President Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?

It's tempting, at this point early in Obama's term, to extrapolate out and predict that his presidency will continue to be such a failure. Heck, as the days pass and the outrages mount, it seems like he might even make it to the end of his term. I'm not talking in concrete terms about impeachment or assassination, I am talking about the feeling that the trajectory he is on is simply unsustainable. At some point, even the liberal media will have to turn on him. When that happens, look out. He'll be labeled the most colossal disappointment in presidential history.

Will he wise up and order a course change? I believe he will, eventually. Like many politicians, I believe what he wants most of all is power. When it finally dawns on him that the majority of Americans no longer see him as the Messiah (I admit it might take awhile for that realization to come), and that a second term is in jeopardy, and that demonizing his opponents and George Bush and pushing a far-left agenda aren't working, he will become pragmatic and reactivate his campaign's "centrist" and "uniter" themes. Will the public buy it a second time? I doubt it.