He said what?

"There were promises of transparency and of a new kind of collaborative politics where establishment figures listened to ordinary Americans. We were going to see net spending cuts, tax cuts for nearly all Americans, an end to earmarks, legislation posted online for the public to review before it is signed into law, and a line-by-line review of the federal budget to remove wasteful programs.

These weren't the tea-party platforms I heard discussed in Nashville last weekend. They were the campaign promises of Barack Obama in 2008.

Mr. Obama made those promises because the ideas they represented were popular with average Americans. So popular, it turns out, that average Americans are organizing themselves in pursuit of the kind of good government Mr. Obama promised, but has not delivered. And that, in a nutshell, was the feel of the National Tea Party Convention. The political elites have failed, and citizens are stepping in to pick up the slack. "

Says Glenn Renyolds who some like to quote.

Then, I give Obama inspiration for the Tea party founding. His health reform has been analyzed over, revised, reanalyzed through more analysis than any other program proposal in recent memory. Consider the divergence between the OMB and CBO on forecasts, never before have they been so studied in real time. The administration is almost naively transparent.

Where is Obama from here? Dunno, but if his inner libertarian comes out in the mid terms, he has a great case and Republican Conservatives are budget busters. Obama wins the Tea party. We still remember Bill Clinton and the end of big government, that is a card no recent Republican can play.