Recommended: Pretty in Pink? Obama's Dark Night of the Soul.

Walter Russel Mead has an interesting meditation on this administration in his piece in The American Interest:  Pretty in Pink? Obama's Dark Night of the Soul. Mead argues that President Obama was never as good as his followers hoped on inauguration day, nor is he as bad as the frustrated far left now thinks he is. Mind you, Mead is not thrilled with the Republicans either (a view I share), but does think the midterm reaction was inevitable once the ultra-liberals under Nancy Pelosi had had their run.  All in all some interesting ruminations.