Obama’s Lack of Focus Could Be Politically Fatal - Bruce Bartlett

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2011/09/16/Obamas-Lack-of-Focus-Could-Be-Politically-Fatal.aspx#page1

This brings me to my central criticism of Obama. Once the stimulus was enacted, he turned his attention elsewhere. He appeared to believe that he had done quite enough to turn the economy around and thus moved on to other issues such as health reform, the environment and energy policy, which occupied an enormous amount of White House attention in 2009 and 2010.
I think this was a mistake, not because I think the Affordable Care Act was inherently bad policy, as Republicans do, but because it diverted Obama’s attention from the economy and caused him to take his eye off the ball