Unbelievable

Are the wheels already starting to come off President Obama's bandwagon? The market plunged again today, and we are starting to get daily ruminations from erstwhile supporters who are waking up, like sailors after shore leave, to a sobering truth: President Change We Can Believe In's expensive plans to remake America are, quite literally, unbelievable.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says, "This is the first pork-filled budget from a new president who promised to go through the budget 'line by line' and cut pork."

Meanwhile, Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative leader William F. Buckley, made headlines last October when he announced his support for Obama. Is Christopher already having second thoughts? Perhaps, if his latest column is to be believed:

"The strange thing is that one feels almost unpatriotic, entertaining negative thoughts about Mr. Obama’s grand plan, as if one were indulging in—call it—the audacity of nope," Buckley says, almost apologetically. "It is on the one hand clear that something must be done about our economic woes. But that is very different from saying that spending these vast, oceanic sums of money is the right corrective to a decade of fiscal incontinence."