Sometimes I think I'm one of the only people who voted for Obama and knew this from the beginning. I knew he'd support Hollywood because that's what Dems do. I knew he'd cater to the Unions because that's what Dems do. Anyone surprised by the slow pullout of Iraq and the beefing up of forces in Afghanistan wasn't watching the campaign very closely.

All in all I've been generally happy with his performance. One of the only unhappy surprises I got was the entire GM "Thing."

As you said Open Source is so low on his priority list I won't be surprised if he simply never even gets to it (with a full 8 years).

1) Our elected representative pushing policies we do not agree with is NOTHING like what caused the original Tea Party.

2) A general lack of understanding in the Party. All party's have fools who spout rhetoric, but I've yet to hear a thought out position from a Tea Partier.

Perhaps it's all media coverage, but their general strong support for Palin makes that hard to believe.