However, her decision may backfire. She has only been in office for two and a half years and, before that, her experience was minimal to say the least. She needs all the tenure she can get. And, the national media has painted her, unfairly, as a flake. Her critics will doubtless use this resignation to amplify that image and call her erratic and undependable.

If the likes of GOP Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Orrin Hatch (Utah) and others refuse to go along with Obama on healthcare and on cap-and-trade, they will force him to pass both programs as one-party bills. Not only is it possible that as public support runs out on these measures he will fail even to get 50 votes to pass them, but it is likely that even if they go through, they doom his administration to perpetual unpopularity.

Obama is, quite simply, stuck with these programs as a result of his campaign promises. But they will become larger and larger burdens to carry as their unpopularity increases.

President George H.W. Bush lost the presidency because he broke his 1988 campaign pledge: "Read my lips: no new taxes." Now President Obama is as blatantly poised to disregard his most fundamental campaign promise: "If you make less than $250,000 your taxes will not go up. Not one dime."

In our new book, “Catastrophe,” we spell out clearly how President Barack Obama has disarmed us in the war on terror and excoriate him for giving Hamas almost $1 billion in foreign aid funneled through the United Nations relief agency in Gaza that takes orders from Hamas. But now, the Administration's weakness in supporting human rights in Iran writes a sad chapter in the history of our foreign policy.