Analysis of recent developments by Ed Morrissey:
Maybe everyone got fooled in this election. The Right believed as the Left did that the nation elected a man who would pull American policy in as sharply a liberal direction as anything since the Carter administration. After seeing most of Barack Obama’s selections for his Cabinet, however, the Left doesn’t get a sense of Carter deja vu as much as they detect a whiff of Bush.
…on foreign policy, the Left has some basis for complaint. …Obama has become an apparent disciple of Brent Scowcroft and the Bush 41 administration. Gone are the plans for a Department of Peace, and instead Obama favors a projection of American power abroad, but under a more restrictive paradigm. The Right would prefer more John Bolton than Susan Rice, but otherwise their worst fears have gone mostly unrealized — depending on how much influence Samantha Power has over Hillary Clinton, which may be the most interesting internecine fight to watch in the first few months of the incoming administration.
During the election, Jim Geraghty and others of us warned voters that every Obama campaign position came with an expiration date. Maybe the Left should have paid more attention.
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight …Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss-THE WHO
