It looks like the message has finally hit home. Forty days after the BP oil spill President Obama is kicking into the sort of action a lot of people in the media were (loudly) complaining last week was missing, including a noon statement from the Rose Garden today. But is it all too much, too late?

The Democrats’ extremely short health care honeymoon appears to be over. This week, according to Gallup, voters are apparently back to preferring the GOP candidate. Something so rare it’s only happened three times before now. Reporters are apparently “flummoxed.”

I kid! Glenn Beck is not actually running President Obama’s anything schedule, nevertheless, he apparently wields a great deal of influence on the decision making of the Obama administration. At least when it comes to making decisions about the media.

Considering how many speeches President Obama has made in the last twelve months it’s hard to get too worked up about tonight’s State of the Union. Nevertheless, it’s technically Obama’s first, and filled with pomp and circumstance. Moreover, who knows what Joe Wilson may or may not holler? Some predictions.

Acknowledging the omen of last Tuesday’s special election in Massachusetts, President Obama and his team are repositioning themselves publicly in order to showcase the president’s “feisty side,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod told Politico. He was quick to note, though, that there will be “no reinventing” despite Washington’s desire for “a shakeup or human sacrifice.” Call it what you will, but isn’t a new public strategy a form of reinvention?

Happy Anniversary Mr. President. Oy. In the words of Jake Tapper, “one of the bluest states in the nation just gave President Obama the WORST anniversary gift he could think of.” Or at least one of them. The day after recriminations and analysis has already started as everyone from the White House on down tries to figure out how this happened and what to do next. And not surprisingly, plenty of people are weighing in.

The biggest question to come from Thursday’s thwarted terrorist attack is how did someone on a watch list manage to get on a plane? This explanation from a senior administration official, via Politico, may go some ways to answering that question: There’s a lot of bureaucracy involved.

This is one of those stories you have to read twice because it’s almost too ridiculous to believe. Apparently, whilst vacationing with her family in Hawaii this week Sarah Palin, having no other head accessories at her disposal, opted to wear what is now a year-old John McCain campaign visor to the beach. Except in order to remain “incognito” she blacked out McCain’s name with marker. No really.

You will not, I think, be surprised to hear that Sarah Palin is selling a lot of books. Last week The Daily Beast reported that Palin had sold 300,000 copies of Going Rogue in the first day alone (that was last Tuesday, meaning we have officially completed one full week of Sarah Palin). And it only gets bigger.