Charles Krauthammer sostiene

Yo creo que con razón, que es una muy mala idea subestimar a Obama.

¿Es posible para EEUU volver atrás con estas barbaridades? Sí, es posible. ¿Es probable? Yo creo que no. Una vez que se crean, las prebendas son casi imposible de eliminar:

Act One is over. The stimulus, Obamacare, and financial reform have exhausted his first-term mandate. It will bear no more heavy lifting. And the Democrats will pay the price for ideological overreaching by losing one or both houses, whether de facto or de jure. The rest of the first term will be spent consolidating these gains (writing the regulations, for example) and preparing for Act Two.

The next burst of ideological energy — massive regulation of the energy economy, federalizing higher education, and “comprehensive” immigration reform (i.e., amnesty) — will require a second mandate, meaning reelection in 2012.