Hot Air links to this David Brooks piece in the NYT:

[T]he Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once…

Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case — are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was. His words are responsible; his character is inspiring. But his actions betray a transformational liberalism that should put every centrist on notice. As Clive Crook, an Obama admirer, wrote in The Financial Times, the Obama budget “contains no trace of compromise. It makes no gesture, however small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach to the great questions it addresses. It is a liberal’s dream of a new New Deal.”

Isn’t that extraordinary?  The brilliant intellectuals, the moderates (do a search on this site for the term “moderate” to see how little regard I hold for people calling themselves “moderates”), our betters, are only finally realizing now that President Barack “I won” Obama is the most left-wing partisan to hold the office of President.  How did us dumb, cousin-fucking hicks in flyover country figure that out before them?

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