OBAMA’S MISTAKE? “His serious and consequential policy mistake is that he put his prestige behind not a new way of breaking through but an old way of staying put. This marked a dreadful misreading of the moment. And now he’s digging in. His political mistake, which in retrospect we will see as huge, is that he remoralized the Republicans. He let them back in the game.” I believe that the “stimulus” — and, worse, the psychology it represents — will be dreadful for the country. I hope I’m wrong. So, I imagine, does Obama.