As the first pundit to predict that President Barack Obama would be president, I was not surprised when he was elected to that office. Lately, however, I must admit he's surprised even me. Don't believe me? Check my archives from December of 2006 (note I even predicted the candidate he might face and would in fact be successful against.)

So how has he surprised your prescient correspondent?

By being the most aggressively leftist president ever.

As someone who had followed his career through the state legislature in Illinois and his ascendency to the United States Senate against less than strong primary and general election challenges, it seemed to me he would slow his pace to the left, as all liberal candidates have done in the past. That is to say he would move more deliberately and cautiously once elected.

But the current administration has surprised even me. They surprise me by their willingness to believe their own press. For months on end, we as a nation were told that this president had more to accomplish because of the enormity of the challenges he would find once in office, and that because of these challenges, the American people would be required to wait for solutions to problems, answers to dilemmas, and improvement in the life of the nation.

If one was to read a generous history on taxes and their ability to impact economic certainty, one would be intimately familiar with a view that Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Ronald W. Reagan had in common. They both believed that if government spending could be restrained, and the largest marginal tax rates were reduced, then economic recovery and growth would become a bi-partisan by-product of the habits of a free market.

Any observer of the increasingly tightening markets, increasing job loss, and general malaise of the presently disillusioned work force could tell you that President Obama's response has been the exact opposite. He has given guidance and direction to the largest "bloatation" of government expenditure in the history of our nation. In fact, he has seen the amount of money spent during his mere six months in office compete with the entirety of the rest of America's history in terms of gross numbers of dollars allocated. The insufferable truth being told, he is also seeking the greatest attempt to weaken, limit, and control the market of any chief executive who has preceded him. By way of illustration for example, he has appointed more czars (32) in oversight positions than the number of weeks he's been in office (22). At the rate he is appointing them, that would be roughly a grand total of 256 czars for his presidency were he to continue at his present pace.

His desire to enact "Cap and Trade" amounts to the largest and most punitive tax increase ever formulated to be executed against the poorest and the most needy citizens.

To answer the critics when asked where the money would come from to pay for it all, he promises that merely printing more dollars will not only suffice, but also hold off inflation of prices while simultaneously creating deflation of our currency's value.

Furthermore, the fact is that the entire rational basis for the existence of cap and trade is far from conclusive and far from agreed upon among the communities of science, much less the American people.

Yet none of any of what I've just described has been anything but an attempt to make good on promises he made during his run for office. Continued...