It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

L. " Parker received over 11000 responses mostly from conservatives criticizing her. In April Kathleen Parker won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary with a selection of political opinion columns.

Her columns are syndicated nationally by The Washington Post. Parker is a consulting faculty member at the Buckley School of Public Speaking and is a regular guest on television shows like The Chris Matthews Show.