As with “Neo”, Obama’s Matrix isn’t real. In fact, it’s the definition of un-reality: an imitation embraced in order to excuse absent leadership. For many years this pretense has been papered over by the GOP’s fetish for political self-immolation. Nevertheless, the GOP doesn’t alter the foundational truth — Obama’s Matrix is a dream world divorced from courage and facts.

Promises mean little in this world because when they’re broken, Obama just redefines the promise. Take Obama’s “red lines” in Syria. The principle was an explicit clarification that punitive military action would follow Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of WMDs. What followed was a Russian swindle that broadcast American impotence. Except, in the Obama Matrix, Obama had really won; it was the critics who were mistaken, we who lacked the intellectual sufficiency to grasp the brilliance of Obama’s brain.

But now the White House has a problem. Now, finally, the American people have had enough. Now, reality has encircled the White House.