A brilliant piece tracks the growing buyers' remorse among centrists, like Gergin, Brooks & Peretz, whose campaign-engendered warmth for the Obama campaign has greatly chilled. I refrain from gloating, but happily pass on the link:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/im-maureen-dowd-and-ive-been-had/ ***
Campaigns are poetry, but governance is prose. The Obama of the grand gesture now confronts the most unrelenting critic of all - history. As a fan of the late great Harry Truman, I prefer my poets and prophets to live and work on the protected sidelines and my policy makers to live and work in the real world....
JBG
*** Copy & paste into your browser's finder. Rubin's take on Maureen Dowd's Obama-regret is especially precious!