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David Frum on Obama’s speech in Kansas:

Yet here is President Obama proposing to replay that bitter Blair-Brown experience. The unblinking diagnosis of the ills of the U.S. economy in the first half of his Kansas speech builds to a conclusion that amounts to: Let’s accept that our future prosperity will be very narrowly based, and instead use some of the proceeds of that narrow prosperity to create government jobs as consolation prizes for those who lose out in private markets. The president flew all the way to Kansas to propose that?

And Ross Douthat furthers:

But fundamentally, his pivot to the 2012 campaign has also been a pivot to a defense of business-as-usual, in which the rich pay, the government grows, and the millions of Americans who don’t belong to public sector unions, work for favored industries, or draw on Social Security and Medicare are left waiting for the government’s ever-more-expensive investments to trickle down to them.