President Obama is between a rock and a hard place. His spokesman Robert Gibbs, knows there is deep frustration with the American economy and is worried that the Democrats could end up with a majority in the 2nd November mid-term election. All 435 seats in the House and 36 out of 100 Senate seats are up for grabs and the Democrats 75-seat majority in the lower chamber could be wiped out and the Republicans could quite possibly gain control.
If this should happen, President Obama will find it hard to push through his major reform of energy and immigration before his re-election bid in 2012. He's trying to convince impatient Americans that his economic policies are working and that improvements will take time.
Mr Gibbs said "The President is frustrated that we haven't seen greater recovery efforts, but that doesn't stop us from doing what we know is right." He said that Americans should think carefully before "handing back the keys" to Republicans who had "driven the car into the ditch" when the economy crashed in late 2008.
The President's overall approval rating is 46 per cent - a year ago, his approval rating was 56 per cent.
David Axelrod a senior White House advisor said "On the other side of the ballot in November will be a party that has an economic theory and it was tested and it led to catastrophe.
"We lost three million jobs in the last six months of 2008. The financial market almost collapsed. They turned a $237 billion that Bill Clinton left into a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit. And they're running on the same policies".
I hope the President gets the chance to push through the rest of his reforms but it's fairly obvious that the American people dislike this President and will ultimately reject him.
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