WHO: Bruce Bartlett, former economic and policy adviser under President George H.W. Bush WHAT: Published an article in the Financial Times describing President Obama as conservative, arguing that his stimulus bill was half the size his advisers thought necessary, his health plan was almost identical to Mitt Romney’s and he extended the Bush tax cuts.
WHY IT’S DIM: Just because Obama is not as liberal as he promised, it doesn’t mean he is conservative.
CURE: There is no cure for the contrarian disease that the once-conservative Bartlett seems to have contracted.
