Before you lay claim to an election year "mandate," maybe you should read this:

<<<  14 million turned off their TV network stations during the inauguration.  Another 11 million did not go to cable news coverage,  and one million fewer folks showed up at the inauguration,  most of them being folks in the DC area.  

Monday wasn't really an Inauguration as much as it was a new episode of Joy Porn starring the mainstream media -- and an act of Joy Porn the American people weren't all that interested in watching. According to the "L.A. Times," in 2009, 17 million watched Obama's inaugural address on the cable nets. This year, that number dropped to 6.7 million.

Across the three broadcast networks, a total of 13.32 million watched the media fall to its knees in worship Monday.  In 2009, viewership topped 27.5 million -- a 52% drop, and about a million fewer than watched Clinton's second swearing in.

Hope and change will bring out the crowds. Slash and burn, not so much.

Something less than a million people attended the inauguration on the Washington Mall.  More than 700,000 were local folks,  living in the D.C. area and taking city buses to the event.  The first inauguration was a bipartisan celebration.  The second was a gathering of those who want to do harm the other half of the nation's population,  those who did not vote for Obama and were not bused to the voting booth by partisan union hacks.