Writes Mr. Broder,
"The size of the gamble that President Obama is taking every day is
simply staggering. What came through in his speech... Tuesday night was
a dramatic reminder of the unbelievable stakes he has placed on the
table in his first month in office, putting at risk the future
well-being of the country and the Democratic Party's control of
Washington.
I've come to believe that the Obama crowd is naive to the point of
stupidity. They are very intelligent, mind you. They have more academic
degrees than the faculty of Harvard. But intelligent people are often
deeply stuck in their fix-the-world fantasies, which makes them idiot
savants. (There's a reason why that's a French term --- Moliere wrote a
comedy about it four centuries ago.)
These people have never accomplished anything but suckering the voters
--- and each other. Their policy genius, David Axelrod, is a PR agent.
That helped with the campaign, but it means nothing for good government.
They seem to have no concept of the economy.. They want to impose a
cap-and-trade system on "carbon emissions," like oil and coal. That
comes down to making Monopoly money and forcing energy-using
corporations to pay for it. They have no concept of productive
investment compared to a wild spending spree on feel-good ideas, or on
kickbacks to their buddies in Chicago .. After all the "community
organizer" hoo-hah they still learned nothing from the welfare fiasco
that was inflicted on Black families by LBJ's War on Poverty, and which
ended up hurting them more than anything Bull Connor could have done ---
by wa y of family breakdown, helpless dependency, drugs, and gang
warfare. They've just abolished Bill Clinton's version of welfare
reform, which was forced upon him by the Gingrich Congress, and which
has ended up really helping people, not hurting them.

Conclusion: These folks are arrogant and ignorant. Intelligent, yes ,
articulate, yes , and utterly persuasive to millions of suckers, yes .
But reality has a harsh way with fools.
David Broder is now spotting the looming steam locomotive chugging his
way, and he is seeing a grave danger to "the Democratic Party's control
of Washington ."
Too bad for the Democratic Party.
But what worries me very much is that Obama is "putting at risk the
future well-being of the country," as Broder writes. That means you and
me and all the things we care about. And Obama is much too arrogant to
change his mind. Watch for a bad train wreck down the road