THEN AND NOW: NERO FIDDLED AS ROME BURNED. OBAMA IS BODY-SURFING AS DC IS ENGULFED IN A TSUNAMI OF DEBT

OBAMA HAS NOT MADE ONE SINGLE SOLITARY COMPROMISE SINCE 2009.

AND HE HAS NOT SACRIFICED ONE SINGLE THING. HE'S RAMMED THROUGH ABOMINABLE LEGISLATION BY PLYING THE POLITICIANS WHO CONTROL CONGRESS WITH PORK.

BILL CLINTON AND GEORGE DUBYA BUSH WERE BOTH MORE COMPROMISING AND ACCOMMODATING TO THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

AND MORE FRUGAL, TOO.

AND MORE GOOD THINGS GOT DONE

MEANWHILE - IN FOREIGN POLICY, THE ARENA IN WHICH THE POTUS HAS A FREER HAND - OBAMA'S SINGULAR ACHIEVEMENT IS THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ACROSS NORTH AFRICA.

IT'S AS IF A TSUNAMI OF ISLAMISM HAS SWEPT ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD.

YET HALF THE USA AND MOST OF EUROPE SEES IT NOT - AS THEY ARE SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DENIAL.

IF WE DON'T COUNTER THESE DEVELOPMENTS WE SHALL SURELY ALL DROWN IN DEBT AND DECAY.

I PRAY THAT NEXT YEAR MORE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT SEE THE LIGHT - BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE....

AND THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE A CATACLYSM TO OPEN THEIR EYES.