President Obama More Effective Than LBJ?

President Obama set a new record last year (2009) for getting Congress to vote his way, clinching 96.7 percent of the votes on which he had clearly staked a position.

That was a bit less than 4 percentage points higher than the previous record, set by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, according to an annual study by Congressional Quarterly.

Yet if you listen to pundits on television and in Washington, you'd think the President's first year has been a disappointment.