Obama populism watch update

First, Robert Reich cogently puts out the anti-recovery argument against a spending freeze.

Second, Michael Lind notes the anti-populism, and further catering to Wall Street, of his signing off on the Gregg-Conrad bipartisan deficit cutting committee, even though Wall Street actually hadn't been asking for such a thing.

And, here's the biggie: Brad DeLong is calling him Herbert Hoover.

Bob Herbert goes back a little less far in presidential lore and invokes "credibility gap."

Obama told ABC he'd rather be a good one-term president than a bad two-term one. Well, right now, he's acting like he's going to be neither.