The "smartest people in the room" who supported Obama still don't get it. Via Mark Steyn ...

Mark Steyn: Missing the point.

The Economist is the latest of the smart guys to notice that President Obama is proving strangely unlike the guy they told us he was back in late October: ...

The geniuses then go on to explain why this is: first, he hasn't "grappled" with the economy as singlemindedly as he should; second, he hasn't managed his relations with Congress very well. Jennifer Rubin gently explains what the smart guys have missed:

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This is the point: The nuancey boys were wrong on Obama, and the knuckledragging morons were right. There is no post-partisan centrist "grappling" with the economy, only a transformative radical willing to make Americans poorer in the cause of massive government expansion. At some point, The Economist, Messrs Brooks, Buckley & Co are going to have to acknowledge this. If they're planning on spending the rest of his term tutting that his management style is obstructing the effective implementation of his centrist agenda, it's going to be a long four years.


It’s something that I have noticed in talking to my associates. Few people who were for Obama, on the fence, or willing to give him a chance are willing to support the policies that he is pursuing. Their defense of him amounts to a rejection of criticism. They turn the discussion to Bush. They believe that those who opposed Obama did not do so because they disagreed with his policies – as interpreted by his earlier positions and, by implication, by the people he associated with – but because of a personal animus.

It was never that, but it is fast becoming that. How can a person remain neutral toward someone who continues to use straw-man arguments, to offer false choices, and to remain supremely unconcerned about the destruction of the people’s wealth while loading a debt burden on the next generation that will be impossible to repay. Just as people, as moral agents, should not remain neutral in the face of evil men, we should not refrain from passing judgment on the person who is deliberately deconstructing America.