Disillusionment Begins

In no less than Andrew Sullivan himself

Quote For The Day

"Change is not running up even bigger deficits that George Bush did," - Rep. Gene Taylor (D).

Agreed, but look: you don't expect a Democrat to act like a Republican, especially after the Republican, on spending, acted like a liberal Democrat. And I didn't expect the Obama administration to be the Ron Paul administration. I did expect more than what now looks like deceptive rhetoric on fiscal sanity in the long run. If the president thinks fiscal conservatives will be satisfied by hiking Medicare premiums for the very rich and a proposal to end ag subsidies that may be dead on arrival in Congress, he's mistaken.

But it's the Democrats' government now. And I think I see why Judd Gregg couldn't handle this. I couldn't either. There's a difference between patriotically supporting a new president inheriting some goddawful problems and betraying every fiscal principle you ever had.