A lot of things that were supposed to be new under the Obama administration are looking strikingly familiar. The new bipartisanship so far consists mainly of a tone of voice – the president’s – set against the battle cries of Bush-era tribal warfare on Capitol Hill. Similarly, the Obama team’s mastery of new media, lauded during the campaign and deemed a harbinger of a new era, doesn’t seem much in evidence. Or perhaps it just doesn’t matter.
