REALITY CHECKS

The new Administration is certainly getting a lot of them. aren't they? But, reality has a way of forcing itself into consciousness from time to time. (Darn, darn, darn that mischievous Axis of Naughty). Reality is such a bitch.

But perhaps these checks may result in some emotional growth and maturity; and a little less gradiosity and determined denial?

Nah.


[Cartoons by Gary McCoy]

UPDATE: Victor Davis Hanson on the impending Obama meltdown:

We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good old-fashioned Chicago politicking.

First, there were the sermons on ethics, belied by the appointments of tax dodgers, crass lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers like Richardson—with the relish of the Blago tapes still to come. (And why does Richardson/Daschle go, but not Geithner?)....

At home, Obama is becoming laughable and laying the groundwork for the greatest conservative populist reaction since the Reagan Revolution.

Abroad, some really creepy people are lining up to test Obama's world view of "Bush did it/but I am the world": The North Koreans are readying their missiles; the Iranians are calling us passive, bragging on nukes and satellites; Russia is declaring missile defense is over and the Euros in real need of iffy Russian gas; Pakistanis say no more drone attacks (and then our friends the Indians say "shut up" about Kashmir and the Euros order no more "buy American").

This is quite serious.

Indeed it is...and it's only been 16 days since the Ascension.