Several pundits today are noting the stunning gulf between what Pres. Obama and his team say and what they do. Mickey Kaus, for one, writes on "Obama’s Five Disconnects." Charles Krauthammer notes Obama's strange pretense that Obama has nothing to do with the dismal results of five years of his economic policies. Victor Davis Hanson provides a powerful summary of the left's larger policy incoherence and the new-speak that covers it up.
Obama, for example, pretends to care about low-wage workers at the same time that he is fighting to flood the labor market with low-skill workers. Obama pretends to oppose income inequality while using government largess to enrich his billionaire donors. His crony-capitalist 'investments' in green energy are in collapse. Yet, he continues to advocate more such investments, as if unreliable and expensive energy could ever be a path to prosperity. Obama's foreign policy, from Libya to Egypt to Syria to Russia, is an historic disaster.
The left's deep denial is of course because they do not want to accept responsibility for the clear and obvious failures of their policies. As the 2014 elections approach, one can expect the denial to only get deeper while the bitter denunciations of the left's opponents only get more bitter.
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