"On the issue of health care itself, the inspiring figure progressives thought they had elected comes across, far too often, as a dry technocrat who talks of “bending the curve” but has only recently begun to make the moral case for reform. Mr. Obama’s explanations of his plan have gotten clearer, but he still seems unable to settle on a simple, pithy formula; his speeches and op-eds still read as if they were written by a committee.
Meanwhile, on such fraught questions as torture and indefinite detention, the president has dismayed progressives with his reluctance to challenge or change Bush administration policy."
In fact Obama has kept most of them and expanded on some. The New York Times led the rabid left's attacks on Bush over them, but, now that their man Obama is president, they remain silent.
All of this leads to this moment of clarity for Krugman and the left.
"So there’s a growing sense among progressives that they have, as my colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked."
Yes, yes you have and you deserve it for anointing Obama instead of doing your job and investigating him. What did the left expect? They elected the most far left and inexperienced Democrat in America who ran his campaign as a moderate. Didn't that ring alarm bells for you guys?
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