Josh #47: Let’s be hopeful, as VDH said above, maybe now that he has to govern a little more bi-partisanly, he’ll learn to do so.

I expect Obama will do what he has to do and say what he has to say (like during the ’08 campaign) if he literally has no choice, but as far as actually learning anything… nah. That’s why the election of Brown, and hopefully many more like him in November, is so crucial – to keep Obama and his kind in the box, with the lid locked tight and the nation safe from his brand of fundamental transformation.

But as far as learning anything, that’s not going to happen. Marty’s choice of the word “childish” is right on. Seems to me that if a person can reach a certain age (not sure what that age is, maybe 40?) and still believe wholeheartedly in the childish nostrums of the left, then you are a hopeless case and entirely unamenable to learning anything no matter what experience and reality is showing you. Obama has surely passed that age and yet still retains all the destructive and obtuse willfullness of a child who had best be surrounded by plenty of real grown-ups. (People like Marc Thiessen perhaps… great in LOTM’s link @26. Or our own L3 – what a great representative of the people he’d make.)

After Virginia and New Jersey and now Massachusetts, Obama will not budge one inch toward the center. No matter what he may say from here on out. His kind can only be contained. I hope we can elect a surfeit of people who can do that, and do it quickly, before things get too ugly.