I am an Obama fan at heart. I really am. Been disappointed about a lot, but he did make a great speech the other day which I'm hoping he'll follow through on - though like Krugman I am happy if this is what we get, but if this is the starting position and we really end up with something half way between the Obama vision and the Ryan plan then we've lost.
But there's a lot of things that just don't square - particularly on the criminal justice side. The refusal to follow up on clear crimes from the Bush years. The clamp down on medical marijuana. The failure to prosecute anyone of significance on Wall Street.
And now Online Poker? Really? To please who? Harry Reid's Las Vegas campaign donors and the religious right who believe poker to be gambling and therefore the work of the devil?