(CNN) -  Our president is a wordsmith.  Syllables are notes on a
scale for Barack Obama, played deliberately and elegantly. He
hears music when he speaks and so do we. The notes he chooses
are revealing. He seldom plays what he does not intend.  As his
inaugural address floated down the National Mall from the steps
of the U.S. Capitol, we heard this comforting refrain: "We have
never ... succumbed to the fiction that all society's ills can
be cured through government alone."  The casual listener may
have heard a call for balance and moderation, but the
president's composition was breathtakingly radical.  There is no
situation, he informed us, in which government is not
indispensably needed. Sometimes, it may require a little help:
Society's ills can't "be cured through government alone."  This
president's audacity is no longer hope: Obama is pursuing a
spectacularly bold and activist, big-government agenda.  He
opposes austerity only for Washington: His attempt to protect
our bloated government from the "sequ