The number of President Obama’s ‘shovel ready’ programs behind a trillion dollar stimulus program displayed in video clips are extraordinary, but two years later few jobs are behind the empty shovels, reflective of what happened in FDR’s ‘New Deal’ efforts during the Great Depression.

And today we found out in the Wall Street Journal that the recovery of this recession, described as ‘deep’ by Obama, is the worst ever in our history.

And, now we have an investigation of major bank foreclosure procedures of homes and the shutdown of same, further threatening the real estate market, the sale of these homes and the value of those in proximity to these homes, further impacting the economy.

Obama put Democratic Party candidates up for mid-term elections this November in further jeopardy in a New York Times Magazine article where he admits that he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” and perhaps should have “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts” in the stimulus.

“The mythology (that his 2008 presidential campaign had been flawless) has emerged somehow that we ran this flawless campaign, I never made a mistake, that we were master communicators, everything worked in lockstep.  And somehow now, as president, things are messy and they don’t always work as planned and people are mad at us,” Obama said.

“That’s not how I look at stuff, because I remember what the campaign was like.  And it was just as messy and just as difficult.  And there were all sorts of moments when our supporters lost hope, and it looked like we weren’t going to win.  And we’re going through that same period here.”

He also predicted in the Times that in the next two years, his administration would focus less on trying to pass new legislation and more on implementing and consolidating what passed in the first two years, most of which Americans disagree with.

He went on to say, “There’s going to be a lot of work in this administration just doing things right and making sure that new laws are stood up in the ways they’re intended.”

It sounds to me he has cut his Party’s candidates adrift with these statements.  Is he really beginning to see that it’s not appearance but substance that counts?  I doubt it, it’s just not his style.

Most Democratic pundits realize he has to change and recalibrate his position and style.

He says he is now reexamining history and reading the Clinton tapes of 1994.  He says the shovel ready projects didn’t work.

Nevertheless, he doesn’t address using the stimulus money left over to reduce the deficit or the national debt, a program that failed to produce jobs – even shovel ready ones.

There are a few things happening that seems to be driving Obama to the center with these comments as he is beginning to realize that if he doesn’t begin to move to the center, cuts his party adrift, he too could be a Carter one term president.  He is not the liberal hope the left wanted and he doesn’t know the theatre of politics – folks are no longer connecting with him, because he promised something he couldn’t deliver.

I find it interesting at this juncture when Obama continues to use an analogy that Republicans are like bad drivers, who once drove the car into a ditch and now want the keys back.

Obama’s got the keys, but seems to be putting the car in reverse.

During the Democratic campaign for the nomination of the Presidency in 2008, Hillary Clinton during a debate pointed out to the audience that Obama didn’t have the experience to be President.

No statement during the campaign, coming from a member of Obama’s same Party who he named Secretary of State, was more profound.