Ninety: BO's ADD

Does Prez Obama suffer from a titanic case of attention deficit disorder? It certainly appears so. And it also is being fed by an overactive ego, which apparently makes him think he can solve any problem, or achieve any result by simply plopping himself at the epicenter of the issue (Chicago Olympics bid; Copenhagen environment conference; jobs summit; financial re-regulation; and of course, health care), and expecting all parties to submit to his superior intellect and moral suasion. Nice try. It worked to get elected, but it won't work to govern.

If politics is "the art of the possible," then BO and his band of merry liberals have sorely missed an opportunity to achieve something useful. With his party majorities in Congress, not to mention his support from the hugely Democratic federal bureaucracy, unions, and academia, he could have stuck to his campaign promise of "post-partisanship" and achieved something historic in any one of the big issues like health care or the economy. Instead, he is flailing around like an Asian carp.