April 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s second
term has so far been a story of high liberal hopes and scant
liberal achievements.
The president has been re-elected, demographic trends favor
the growth of his coalition, his party has a technological edge,
and his opposition is confused and divided. One might therefore
expect Obama to be enacting the legislative agenda of that
rising coalition. Yet the White House has to be disappointed,
whatever it says, by the way the second term has been going.
