MICKEY KAUS: Obama An Unconvincing Triangulator:

If you suggest, as the president did, that the seemingly moderate plan you agreed to is awful and you’ll try to rescind it in two years, you won’t leave the center thinking, “He’s our guy!” You’ll leave them thinking, “Note to self: Remove Obama in two years.”

Indeed.

UPDATE: Mickey emails: “The sentences you generously excerpt from my triangulation item are, alas, from Peggy Noonan’s column. The problem is that the Newsweek layout software eliminates the indent that is there to indicate it’s a quote. This only seems to happen when it is next to an ad, making the column narrow.” Oops. Oh, well, they’re still good sentences.