PJ O’Rourke starts at a canter (h/t Instapundit):

Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn’t president yet?

Accelerates:

Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned dinner, let’s get the dog to cook."

And ends at a gallop:

Is Obama the man who can make the wolf of partisan spoils dwell with the lamb of public interest, and the leopard of increased political power lie down with the kid of individual liberty; and the calf of personal responsibility and the young lion of social engineering and the fatling of free enterprise together; and a lawyer from Hyde Park will lead them?

What a sentence.

Caps doffed all round.