Jonah Goldberg: “[Barack Obama] often talks about how he’s not an ideologue but a pragmatist, and how he’s a essentially a disinterested public servant pushing no agenda other than what all the experts agree is the best policy – on health care, the environment, the economy, etc. He likes to say how he’s open to new ideas from everywhere, but the new ideas he takes seriously just happen to come from the left and always involve more government. It’s not that he’s liberal, he’s just right. Or as [Paul] Krugman once put it, ‘the facts have a liberal bias.’ Such arrogant groupthink not only leads to bad policies, but it reinforces a mass psychology that simply takes it for granted that liberals have sole access to the Truth. It’s like having God on your side without having to believe in God.”