Last night, great expectations were abound. With his job approval in free fall and congressional supermajority now belonging to the ages, many pundits expected the president to use the State of the Union address as an opportunity to take a "hard-pivot" to the center of the political spectrum. But rather than walking away from what has thus far been nothing but a losing table, Obama dug in his heels, ordered another vodka martini, and doubled down on radical liberalism. The American people watched as he placed his usual cards on the table: cap-and-trade, health-care reform, handouts for various factions of our society, populist demagoguery, etc. Regrettably, he hasn't learned that those cards aren't winners, and perhaps we now have to finally admit to ourselves that our president has a problem. Who we should have seen last night was not the gambler we've become accustomed to, but a realist born from the seed of the gambler. Now that he's played those losing cards...(Read Full Post)