Our President and his vacant "progressive in the headlights look"

When reality doesn't comport with an ideologue's elaborate worldview they tend to suffer quite a bit of cognitive dissonance which manifests itself as repeated rebooting with all its attendant whirrs and clicks.

Krauthammer has a good theory for how ideological thinking is paralyzing "the Bar".

But I’d propose an alternate theory, less psychological than intellectual, that gives him more credit: Obama’s passivity stems from an idea. When Obama says Putin has placed himself on the wrong side of history in Ukraine, he actually believes it . He disdains realpolitik because he believes that, in the end, such primitive 19th-century notions as conquest are self-defeating. History sees to their defeat.

More Krauthammering here.