MATT WELCH: Obama: I Am Not a Socialist, Because Bush Expanded Medicare! “Obama will get no argument from me when it comes to Bush’s disaster socialism. But this new he-did-it-too argument does run counter to another, Hendrik Hertzberg-applauded narrative that Obama has been running with since before inauguration: That his administration’s economic policies represents a sharp break from the policies of his predecessor. As people like Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson have begun to point out, Obama is running high on the contradiction-meter.”