THE EXTRAVAGANT UNREALITY OF THE REALITY-BASED:

President Obama is making nobody happy (Ruth Marcus, April 3, 2010, Washington Post)

The perplexing irony of Barack Obama's presidency is that even as conservatives attack him as a crazed socialist, many on the left are frustrated with what they see as the president's accommodationist backtracking from campaign promises. [...]

The difference between the two sides is that the left's complaints are more, as they liked to say in the days of George W. Bush, reality-based. [...]

Given his supporters' "extravagant unrealism," says the Brookings Institution's William Galston, "there was no way he could fulfill all those promises -- not in his first year, not in his first term, not ever."

The Left didn't get the conservatism of the candidate and the Right doesn't get the conservatism of the president. Neither have much interest in realty.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 3, 2010 6:24 AM