Obama already a lame-duck president

By Ted Belman

Robert Reich under the title The Obama Agenda and the Enthusiasm Gap in the WSJ sums up Obama’s record,

A stimulus too small to significantly reduce unemployment, a TARP that didn’t trickle down to Main Street, financial reform that doesn’t fundamentally restructure Wall Street, and health-care reforms that don’t promise to bring down health-care costs have all created an enthusiasm gap. They’ve fired up the right, demoralized the left, and generated unease among the general population.

Reich then tries to explain and concludes

Any or all of these hypotheses may be true, but the undeniable consequence has been to erode the capacity of the president and his party to accomplish much more from here on.