• NYT columnist Joe Nocera believes that Obama won't achieve Roosevelt's greatness unless he is willing "to make some bankers mad."

• Kevin Baker, writing in Harper's, also sees the conflict-averse Obama more like Hoover than like Roosevelt, as he moves "prudently, carefully and reasonably toward disaster."

• The banking lobbyists are busy undermining Obama's financial consumer protection agency by proudly defending our inalienable right to be...