After reading that Time piece about the mood in the Obama administration, Douthat advises the White House staff to buck up:
If you believe in Barack Obama’s agenda (as, presumably, most of the people working for him do), then you have no business giving up on Rushmore now: His presidency could still have over six more years to run, and he’s already achieved the public policy dream of a generation’s worth of liberals! There have been dark, depressing times to serve in a White House (the last year or so of the Bush administration, to pick a recent example). But the midterms and Tea Partiers notwithstanding, the 22nd month of the Obama era really shouldn’t be one of them — unless, of course, you came into the job with such unreasonable expectations that anything short of a perpetual inauguration-style lovefest would have disappointed you.
My feelings entirely. But strange to hear Ross having to give the Obamaites a pep-talk.
The Dish 