"Barack Obama has now, in just a year's time, become the single most inept president perhaps in all of American history, and certainly in my lifetime. Never has so much political advantage been pissed away so rapidly, and what's more in the context of so much national urgency and crisis. It's astonishing, really, to contemplate how much has been lost in a single year."
It was hilarious, of  course, when Michelle Bachmann invoked the Charge of the Light Brigade  at a rally against "Obama's" (has he ever really owned it?) health  care "initiative" (isn't that too strong a word to use?), quite  oblivious to the fact that the actual historical event was one of history's  greatest debacles.  Obama, on the other hand, seems to be actually  reliving the famous cock-up in the flesh.  Except, of course, that  he doesn't really "charge" at anything.  He just talks about  things, thinks about things a real long time, defers to others on things,  and waits around for things to maybe happen.
This week, though, something  actually did happen.  Alas, not precisely what the president had  in mind, however.
But the election in Massachusetts  was only slightly less inevitable than the sun rising in the east each  morning.  It was the product of an amazing collection of abysmal  choices and practices over the last year that has produced a meltdown  of equally amazing proportions for this president and his party.   It is fitting that it comes on the anniversary of the president's  inauguration, a moment filled with so much hope for so many just a year  ago.
What has Obama - this  Conan O'Brien of presidents - done wrong in order to produce this  devastating outcome?
You get the idea. Be sure to read the whole thing.
 
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