Too Much Goodness

I think this post by Josh Marshall is very insightful. I’d heard this new theme being thrown about a day or two ago — that Junior has been too successful to win a second term. Why, he might as well as already have had his second term he’s been so ambitious and so successful at achieving his ambitions. Americans are just plain worn out from all that success. They need a break. Once they get their break, though, they’ll be ready for more.

Yeah. After the Democrats clean up all the “successes” they’ve left in huge steaming piles all over the world.

This is actually rather transparently pathetic. As Josh points out:

Rather than taking it on its merits, though, I have a different take on this argument. It’s a rhetorical or logical reasoning halfway house on the way to a realization of how badly the president has screwed up what one might generously call his ambitious plans. As with Kubler-Ross’s grinding five stages of grief, first we have denial. Then anger. And with this argument we have something akin to that tipping-point stage of ‘bargaining’ — the sensible pundits’ first tip-toe out onto a serious consideration of the impact of the president’s term of office.

I think that’s about right. The right-wing pundits went way out on a limb with this guy — even ridiculously comparing him to Churchill and Lincoln. They have to crawl quite a distance to get back down to earth.