CK MacLeod, on Jennifer Rubin:

How many times have Jennifer Rubin and Abe Greenwald written that Obama does not represent real change?

About as many times as Obama has gone back on a promise and offered a typically hypocritical example of “continuity”: lobbyist and insider appointments, non-transparency of appropriations, and just about every other aspect of business as usual that in this Administration has replaced “new politics,” along with features of Bush War on Terror policies that Obama & the gang like to pretend they’re changing, but are leaving more or less in place. This pattern was firmly established in the campaign, or course.

Today they say Obama represents radical change. Tomorrow, will they be back to claiming that he represents politics as usual? Their political compasses swing by the minute. Do they genuinely not have a clue, or do they take both sides to increase the odds that they can say “I told you so” down the road?

Here’s a concept for you: An administration can attempt radical policies while seeking to implement them in a completely disingenuous, laughably confused and self-contradictory manner. The inconsistencies may lie in the object, not in the beholder. Obama promised conventional policies and moderate governance conducted via quasi-revolutionary openness, honesty, and bipartisanship. He’s so far been busily delivering the converse. His foreign policy is so far a dog’s breakfast.

America, you tell us, “loves his way.” Maybe. Sooner or later, if so, America will likely face an embarrassing morning after – perhaps around the time Obama has held an Executive Competence Summit and a New Politics Summit and a Truth in Advertising Summit to follow on the hugely important success of his Fiscal Responsibility Summit.