Via Peggy Noonan's column wherein she quotes President Obama's response to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, asking the President to move to the center:

While answering, Mr. Obama raised his voice slightly and quickened his cadence. "If the price of certainty is essentially for us to adopt the exact same proposals that were in place leading up to the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression . . . the result is going to be the same. I don't know why we would expect a different outcome pursuing the exact same policy that got us in this fix in the first place." He continued: "If our response ends up being, you know . . . we don't want to stir things up here," then "I don't know why people would say, 'Boy, we really want to make sure those Democrats are in Washington fighting for us.'"

Ms. Noonan has her own insights into this, but what occurred to me was that Obama is quite rapidly adopting all sorts of George Bush policies that he previously found to be anathema.

What is the Afghanistan policy if not "Bush" policy? It seems obvious to everyone, including Obama's supporters on the left who found the troop increase to be reprehensible.

Guantanamo is not closed, more than a year after the President assured us it would be. The civilian trials? The wind seems to be blowing in a very 'Bushy' direction on that issue as well. When the administration acted to 'fight for the people' by holding a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohamed right smack in the middle of Manhattan, the people took issue--especially the good Democrat voters of New York City who were not particular anxious for another terror attack in the Big Apple. Eric Holder may be resigning shortly to spend more time with his family.

Mr. Obama has also discovered that the Middle East is a diplomatic hell hole, where talk has no value and inhabitants bet on strong horses. Who knew? One Democrat Senator explained yesterday that the 'Iranians lied to us...'. I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, but I saw that one coming...

Congress is deliberating over a jobs bill that will provide incentives to small business people to hire employees. I'm apparently still poor enough to be a 'good guy' but I have to say that I'm not hiring nobody for the foreseeable future because I can't see past my nose economically with these bobos in charge. As they come up fast on the end of public patience with this bridge back to the 1930s, how likely is it that Congress will make the Bush tax cuts permanent and then sweeten the pot with new tax incentives?

I think its going to be pretty likely as the people who the Democrats are 'fighting' for turn around and bloody their noses. The real shame in all of this is that the people losing their seats in the upcoming election(s) are the more centrist, pragmatic elements of the party. The wackos are forever.