The Washington Post’s Dan Balz tells us the president has a new pivot planned.

When you read this very careful disection of the realities of Obamacre from Tyler Durden at Zerohedge, you will know why the president wants to pivot, and pivot agaion and again and again.

Urban Meyer and all of us OSU fans would like to pivot from Satruday’s loss to MSU, but facts are stubborn things.  Alabama fans would like to pivot from Auburn.  St. Louis would like to pivot from Boston.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men…

Steven Hayward previews the Democrats’ civil war in the aftermath of this fiasco, but that’s the least of the president’s problems.  This collapse has his name on it.  Forever.

It gets worse from here.  Every week will bring more and more horror stories. I am taking vacation now rather  than at year’s end and New Year’s beginning not just because I have a new book to promote beginning 12/31, because the whole horrific debacle will be on display 1/1/14 when millions aren’t covered and eventhe so-called “good exchanges” like CoveredCA.com are revealed as hundred million dollar frauds.

Obamacare.  The answer to a thousand future questions fromt he left that begin “Why don’t we try…”

Speaking of thr new book, may I suggest you send a few gift copies to the Democrats you know, perhaps even the president?  They are going to need it.  

John Podhoretz tweeted out that Nelson Mandela could have chosen to be –had the power to become– an even greater monster than Mugabe.  Instead, Mandela chose to become a saint.  A great leader, a great Christian, a great example.  The world cannot honor him enough as it should hope that all people offered the complete power he was would act as he did.

It just worked out this year that I would be on radio vacation this coming week and next. Ordinarily I take the last two weeks of the year, but The Happiest Life publishes on 12/31, so I will be in NYC and DC promoting it and broadcasting.  So the break is now.

Three books have come along with me to read (and to walk/run to, because of Chris Cillizza, the first three of The Wheel of Time audio books.)

The two books:

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit, and Jeff Shaara’s Gone for Soldiers,  I will be tweeting bits from Goodwin’s remarkable work –I know it is remarkable because I just blew through the first 50 pages on the plane and they are wonderful.  (Did you know it was Nellie Taft who brought the Cherry Blossom trees to D.C., for which everyone who has every lived there ought to be grateful?)

I return to the air on 12/23, and until then you will be in the very competent hands of AEI’s Arthur Brooks and Congressman John Campbell.  Duane of course remains vigilant against excessive USCing by the latter, but the looming budget “deal” should make them both the perfect guest hosts.  My thanks to them in advance.

Here’s a fellow who needs a copy of The Happiest Life.  Send him one.  He could really use it.  Really.  The Happiest Life will arrive on your doorstep 12/31 if you preorder it.