I Suspect Charles Blow is Correct

The failure of democrats to deliver change will be their undoing in the next couple of elections. Given the opportunity of a generation to enact real change, to push for a retooling of a crashing economy, to wind down the war machine and turn up a health and welfare economy driven by development and implementation of a technologically green and independent energy system, the democrats (and Obama primarily) chose the cautious path of rescuing bankers and currying favor with campaign contributors.

Obama is a really smart guy, but he is perhaps even more cautious than he is smart. Too bad for the dems that they didn’t elect a George Bush doppelganger, a less intelligent, but bolder partisan leader.

It is still possible that Obama will learn on the job and will turn into a more dynamic leader, a guy who will use the bully pulpit to push meaningful public policy, but he wasted the critical 100 days of his administration and got very little enacted. Now we enter the campaign year when he is even less likely to get meaning legislation passed and his presidency will enter its first term twilight after the midterm elections.

The problem at the base of these disappointments is an campaign finance system that makes our political system the best system that money can buy. This political system is not the one we need. An elected government that cannot challenge the moneyed interests has its limitations.