Fineman Gets His Jones On

clipped from hotair.com By recent standards—and that includes Bill Clinton as well as George Bush—Obama for the most part is seeking to govern from the left, looking to solidify and rely on his own party more than woo Republicans. And yet he is by temperament judicious, even judicial. He’d have made a fine judge. But we don’t need a judge. We need a blunt-spoken coach. So he’s “swimming in the middle” while “seeking to govern from the left”?  No wonder people have trouble with his competence.  I’m not even sure how Fineman bases his “swimming in the middle” assessment on policy or tone.  He’s allowed Nancy Pelosi to lock Republicans out of the legislative process on Porkulus and the omnibus spending bill, tacitly allowed Congress to pass the pork-filled omnibus spending plan, and has rolled out a half-baked plan to vastly grow government over the next ten years as a supposed economic stimulus. That’s only swimming in the middle if you write for Newsweek, or Mother Jones.