Toping it all off was the launch and then back-off from a witch hunt against former Bush Administration lawyers on the matter of interrogation techniques.

Center-right votes and a large swath of the independent vote is shaking its collective head at the furious rush to the far left, and the initial thought that the new president would govern from the center is gone. President Obama will use moderate rhetoric to cloak radical actions on the domestic front, and a return to Carterism abroad.

The approval polls reflect his likeability but mask his vulnerability, or more accurately, the vulnerability of his party in 2010. The push for single-payer national health care (again, cloaked in comforting words of "competition") will accelerate the recognition that balance is needed in D.C. and can only be obtained at the ballot box.

In the mean time, watch first for the results of California's special election in two weeks. The six ballot initiatives that the Sacramento Democrats and Arnold put before the voters will be rejected, another leading indicator of voter remorse at having empowered the neosocialism of the modern Democratic Party and some go-along Republicans.

Then look for round two of the tea parties on July 4 --information is at TeaPartyPatriots.org-- and after that the gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia, states where Democrats have dominated for the past many cycles.

The energy of the tea parties and which we see on our tour of the country may not be a majority movement yet, but it clearly indicates that the new president has blown off the idea of a new politics and a new bipartisanship, and that the signal has been received loud and clear. The unaligned voters of America thought they might be electing a post-partisan, post-ideological president but already know --and will learn again and again-- that what they actually got was a hard left ideologue with a wonderful reading voice. Bait-and-switch has never gone over very well with Americans.