It is often said that the night is darkest just before the dawn, which while sounding trite also serves to remind us that nothing stays the same. And so it is with the ascension of Barack Obama to the position of Führer. Now that the short-lived honeymoon with the Anointed One is all but over and the purveyors of received wisdom have been proven wrong in their prediction that Obama would govern from the center, we can develop a game plan to bring about that “change” in Washington we all expected and which he has failed to deliver.