Splat

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Michael Barone writes that "we're seeing what happens when liberal dreams collide with American public opinion." It's like what happens when a butterfly collides with the windshield of a speeding sport utility vehicle. Splat. It's a nice image. "What's really exceptional at this stage of Obama's presidency," writes Andrew Kohut, the Pew Research Center's respected pollster, "is the extent to which the public has moved in a conservative direction on a range of issues. These trends have emanated as much from the middle of the electorate as from the highly energized conservative right. Even more notable, however, is the extent to which liberals appear to be dozing as the country has shifted on both economic and social issues." From which we can draw two conclusions. One is that economic distress does not move Americans to support more government.