Voters don't want to go where Obama is leading

Nolan Finley:

Incredibly, the message President Barack Obama is hearing from the revolution in Massachusetts is that fitful Americans want more of the same: more populism, which means a more expansive government that is more intrusive in private markets, which means more spending and more taxes, which means more economic stagnation, which means more unemployment.

In other words, more of everything that's got the electorate already so agitated.

Obama's response to the Democrat's Bay State rebuke was to grab a pitchfork and try to elbow to the head of the mob. It's the greedy bankers you're angry with and not me, he insisted, vowing to renew his war on Wall Street with a vengeful vigor.

It would be easy to assign his denial to tone deafness. It goes beyond that. It's a stubborn resistance to recognize that America doesn't want to go where he's trying to lead it.

Obama is still taking his counsel from the leftist ideologues who are telling him that the trouble isn't that he's too liberal, but not liberal enough.

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I don't think voters are mad at bankers who have paid back their TARP loans. I know I am not. As for those who have not, it sounds like he is piling on their current burden which si sorta like adding a usurious interest rate on the loans. Then there are the real problem debtors of TARP loans the auto companies who probably will never be able to repay them and they are not being taxed by the guy who says he wants our money back.