Though it still may not be obvious to the majority of the American electorate or the Democratic base, we have a president who is a Democrat only nominally, avoiding Democratic Party values in his rush to embrace Republicanism.

We have a corporatist president without a Democratic vision for the common good, without the boldness required to fight for regular Americans.

He is a talented rhetorician whose primary concern appears to be well said is better than well done as his anemic policies regarding the unemployment crisis and the economic disaster testify.

As Robert Becker writes: "Having stumbled the first year as right-leaning Democrat, why not try safe, right-leaning Republicanism?"
Obama's State of the Union address could have been subtitled: "Now, we are all Republicans."

His budget for jobs programs is woefully inadequate, just as was the stimulus.  Obama is a president of half measures, except when it comes to imitating Reagan and Bush, for example, their tax cuts and tax credits that helped create the deficit

John Nichols writes at The Nation: "Despite claims by the Obama administration and its congressional allies that last year's stimulus was a success, they are effectively acknowledging its failure with the decision to propose significant new spending for job creation. Unfortunately, the $100 billion initiative that the White House is advancing as part of its $3.8 trillion budget still falls far short of what Congress and the administration could have, and should have, allocated last year for job creation.

"In other words, the White House continues to cut corners when it comes to job creation.

"it is not focused enough on stimulating private and public-sector jobs creation and in stabilizing the budgets of hard-pressed states and cities. Even if Congress approves all of the new spending that the administration has proposed, the U.S. will still be spending less on stimulating genuine job growth than was proposed by serious economists and key members of the House in 2009.

"That's a failure of vision – and of commitment – that will haunt not just the president but congressional Democrats if unemployment remains in double digits as the 2010 congressional elections approach.

"The answer, unfortunately, is that that the president and his aides still do not get it. This is a Groundhog's Day budget – it repeats the mistakes of 2009 in 2010 – and the consequences could be severe for workers, for their communities and for a party that seems to have forgotten then lessons of the New Deal era that yielded its greatest electoral triumphs."

This is because we elected a wooden-headed DINO president whose corporatist administration reflects his true values, as well as electing a primarily millionaire DINO majority on Capitol Hill.  Unfortunately, he and they appeared to be better (or had more money) than other candidates, and that is a terrible indictment of the current Democratic Party.