Joe Klein. That’s gonna leave a mark:

Pete Wehner, like many over at the Commentary blog, suffer from Obama Failure Tourette’s Syndrome…every few hours, like clockwork, they jump up and shout, “He’s Failing! It’s falling apart! He’s cratering!”

I get several e-mails like this every single day of the week. It’s TEH FAILED OBAMA PREZNITZY!!!

And make no mistake, the cynicism of the more intellectual Republican commentators–pretending Obama’s (and Bush’s) Keynesian efforts to deal with the recession are the reason for momentous Bush deficits…plus the gathering effort to paint him into an Afghan war escalation–is every bit as toxic as the populist craziness sweeping the base of the party. I see lots of political tactics, not very many substantive policy suggestions, from the disloyal opposition these days.

It’s maybe to Obama’s credit that he hasn’t taken the obvious opportunity to really portray the teabaggers as the disloyal opposition - all Obama would need to do is start talking about how health care reform is in the best intersts of America, Americans need to start asking what what they can do for their country, etc. - thus putting the teabaggers in the position of arguing against the nation itself.

Obama, I suspect, just doesn’t want to be this divisive. His critics have no such qualms.