NEW YORK — "Given his druthers (U.S. President Barack) Obama will pursue the most left-leaning course he can get away with."
So says Jennifer Rubin, a rightwing pundit at the neoconservative-leaning Washington Post. "Obama," Rubin claims, "would have marched through his entire liberal agenda — if he had the votes."
This, of course, assumes that Obama ever had a liberal agenda. There's not much evidence of that. Obama did have the votes in Congress to get almost everything that he wanted, but he chose not to try.