I've pulled in my horns for the past year or so.

[sofa king]

38. Yay!

His left wing is shorter than his right, if you ask me, but he's also the best politician I have ever seen and he has been running a model Presidency, rebuilding it from an institutionally retarded old-boys network into a fully functioning government in only a few years without additional money or Congressional support. He has already undone a great deal of the institutional damage Bush and Cheney inflicted.

President Obama is on our side in this most important respect: He has identified the most important enemy to the future of the United States and is well on his way to wrecking their political apparatus for decades to come. His rise to office and everything he has subsequently done might just remain a prominent historical lesson for hundreds of years, for he has shown how to use the tools at hand to dismantle an oligarchy masquerading as a republic. It is this simple: set them against themselves and play their greed against them all.

We will do well to study that, for we'll be sure to need those tools again. We can't keep him forever, though I sure wish he had a twin brother.

And I will say this, too: President Obama does not show what he really wants until nobody is in a position to deny it from him. What he clearly wants is a Democratic supermajority in the Senate by 2015, and then in those last two years, we shall see if he is really a centrist, or a genuine progressive living within the rules of realpolitick.