I hope the writers for the NY Times live on cat food after they retire. Is that wrong?

Mark Steyn tells us that the MSM is beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, the "Big O" is not the Messiah after all; that he may not be up to the job. That he may be making matters worse.

They expected a conventional Liberal who would do more for the environment, spend a little more money on welfare, make race based preferences a little more explicit.

Instead they got a smooth talking Chicago street thug who's a full blown Marxist who is so radical that he's splitting the country in two or more pieces. Someone who blew right past billions in spending so that our smallest budget numbers are now denominated in trillions.

They are Dr, Frankenstein and they have just lost control of the experiment.

So now we have:

Michael Wolff - "Barack Obama Is A Terrible Bore":

And

To a man like Obama, as he has let slip on too many occasions when away from his teleprompter, "Middle America" is not something to be compromised with, but rather, something that must be manipulated, because it is stupid. And the proof that it can be manipulated is that he is the president today.

Yes, but the manipulation of "Upper-Middle America" - the Dowds, Riches, etc - was key to that. They're the beneficiaries, ungrateful though they are, of the boom years. Politics is cyclical so in the fulness of time it may yet deliver up another Reagan. But, if you're Frank and Maureen's age, at the rate the Obama-Frank-Dodd crowd are vaporizing American wealth, the new Reagan may not arrive in time to enable you to make back everything Obama's costing you. But hey, that's "social justice", right?

Is it wrong of me to hope that Dowd and Rich's personal assets are invested in NY Times stock and an S&P500 index fund? Probably. But I am a Calvinist and acknowledge that I sin; so I'll cling to this sin like I cling to my guns and religion. Because I believe in a just God.