Did Even Obamas Supporters Expect Something This Radical?

Let's pause to absorb the radicalism of what President Obama and congressional Democrats have just done. Their stimulus plans will raise the baseline of federal spending by $1.2 trillion (counting interest) and raise the federal share of GDP to 28% (from a recent low if 18% and a current level of about 20%). They have ballooned the federal deficit in the next fiscal year to more than $2 trillion, in percentage terms the biggest deficit since World War II.. We have also taken on nearly $10 trillion in federally secured "bad" private sector loans and assets to be de-federalized... when? Maybe never...

For the past 18 months, we heard incessantly how centrist and moderate Obama and his agenda were. On that basis, many genuinely centrist and moderate voters supported him. My question to them: Did you ever imagine that you were voting for this?

Whatever the case, we will not soon turn back from this. I don't think the nation had an honest debate and honestly chose to transform ourselves forever, but it's happening anyway.

Most remarkably: This revolution is happening without anybody much commenting on it. Before we make this turn to a vastly larger, costlier, more powerful federal government, shouldn't somebody somewhere ask: Is this really what Americans want?