Hell is other people

The existential crisis of Obama supporters:

According to Maureen Dowd, “Obama is the head of the dysfunctional family of America — a rational man running a most irrational nation, a high-minded man in a low-minded age. The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown.” Jonathan Alter argues that the American people “aren’t rationally aligning belief and action; they’re tempted to lose their spleens in the polling place without fully grasping the consequences.” And Slate’s Jacob Weisberg has written that “the biggest culprit in our current predicament” is the “childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”

Missing in action

Obama's geniuses.

Is Eric Holder one of them? The first black attorney general took the opportunity of his first speech to chastise America as “essentially a nation of cowards” who “do not talk enough with each other about race.”

Is Timothy Geithner one of them? The president’s “indispensable” Treasury secretary popped up for a much anticipated bank plan rollout, but at the last minute decided the plan was . . . dispensable.

Democrats love taxes

In theory, at least.