The economy continues to languish in a stupor of slow growth and low employment. Even the majority of Keynesian economists agree that the stimulus has not stimulated. The national mood has shifted so hard against the Democrats that non-partisan pollsters are predicting a house swing of 40-50 seats, while conservatives eye a gain in the 60s or 70s. The progressive brand is so damaged that orthodox liberals like Joe Sestak are running as independents and Blue Dogs are running as conservatives. Obama's Democratic minions are begging the administration to tack toward the center and beat them a path back to the electorate. So, with less than two months until the election, what's Barak Obama's game-changer?
$50 Billion in spending on "infrastructure." Seriously.
I've spent the past few weeks wondering how Obama would react to the Paradigm Correction of 2010--because, really, all this fun is going to be for naught if he recalibrates his agenda just enough to win reelection in 2012. That will not happen. What I've learned, or rather, what was confirmed for me this weekend, is that Obama is as deeply enraptured an ideologue as we fear he was. He has no interest in presiding over a center-right country. He's going to spend his time in office pulling America as far to the left as he can, and political failure will not stop him.
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