Obama also has encountered resistance from Democrats who are reluctant to support his economic stimulus package because they object to his hard line against earmarks and his proposed tax breaks for businesses.
Put your hands together, therefore, for a country which has undertaken three original and far-sighted reforms to bring credibility to its monetary policy, stability to its public finances and prudence to its government accounts, and has thus transformed itself from one of the great disasters of modern macroeconomics into an object lesson in the conduct of economic policy.
"The issue is starting to be recognized as a legitimate object of clinical attention, as well as an economic problem, given that a great deal of non-essential internet use takes place at work, " said Dr Aboujaoude.