My take on David Brooks' Column Today

So let me get this straight. President Obama has abandoned the center by not shaping his policies to appease an opposition party that has abandoned the center? As GOP strategy crystallizes around 'whatever it takes, prevent any Obama success', it's Obama's fault? As it becomes clear that a lack of government, more than anything else, brought us to the current crises (fiscal, economic, moral) we should fault our president's attempts to restore government's rightful place as regulator and overseer of institutions that have the size and power to ruin us? Who's out of touch here?