It has been beyond great:

• Scott Brown won and the Democrats fillibuster proof majority in the Senate evaporated
• Obamacare, at least in its most odious form, died
• The far left and the blue dogs are fighting like hyeannas
• The Teapartiers enjoyed their first clear victory and the odious commentators on MSNBC are sampling the salty and savory flavor of Teabag
• - Teddy Kennedy’s legacy was shattered and his seat was lost to a Republican
• - Much of Obama’s remaining agenda like amnesty and cap and trade has been rendered impossible
• - The Supreme Court reversed the worst of McCain-Feingold and brought back balance to the situation where only unions and George Soros had a political voice.
• - And Air America went off the air and filed for Chapter 7.

I challenge anybody to identify a sweeter week.  And it is only Thursday so there may be more good things to come.

First, it is clear that Obama has no coattails.   His voters may eventually turn out for him again in 2012 (time will tell), but despite campaigning in both Virginia and New Jersey, it is apparent that they will not turn out if Obama is not on the ballot.  This should give Democrats, and particularly those in red and purple districts, who will be facing re-election in 2010 plenty to think about.  Nothing original about this thought.  My fellow Red State-rs have made it repeatedly.

But what would be worrying me even more and probably really pissing me off is the lack of concern.  While his fellow Democrats were being used as floor mops last night, Obama showed disregard that could only be described as callous.  Perhaps he thought that by not watching the election returns along with millions of other concerned Americans he was exhibiting some sort of Presidential aloofness.  Instead he narsacistically watched an HBO documentary about ….. wait for it ……..

 ”The One”. 

If I were an endangered Democrat, I would be taking a different message from this behavior.  Obama is quick to ask his troops to take the tough votes to advance his agenda and to secure his legacy but he is so indifferent to the negative effect on their careers that he cannot even be bothered to watch them lose.  If the coach is going to ask me to take one for the team he can at least do me the respect of watching while I go down in flames.   He has no coattails and he has so little respect for his fellow travelers that he doesn’t even care!

P.S.  Pelosi is probably even worse in this respect but nobody ever accused her of having coattails.

Moving forwards, Obama is somewhat famous for uttering these words:

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works”

It seems to me that Obama has challenged us to use competence as the yard stick by which we judge him.  He wants us to ask: Does our government work?

At this point we are only about 60 days into Obama’s first (and hopefully only) term and I am starting to see many disturbing signs that our government, under his Administration, is working worse then perhaps it has in a long time. 

First, there has been the question of his vetting process and the difficulty of filling his cabinet and lower level appointments.  At no time in my memory has a President nominated so many people who later had to withdraw or were even reluctantly confirmed with so many ethical problems.  Perhaps this is because all Democrats are unethical and this makes it very difficult to find one who is not.  But I think the more likely explanation is that there is a high degree of incompetence in Obama’s vetting process.

Moving forwards, we are watching one of the most incompetent foreign policies in a long time.  Our allies have been systematically insulted, the Russians were giving a ridiculously stupid button on it with the wrong word on it, we have breached trade agreements, etc.

I’m sure there are other good examples and I would welcome my readers to list them but I’ll just skip forward to the AIG bonus fiasco.  It is now painfully clear, because they inserted language in the stimulus bill to recognize it, that the Obama team was aware of these bonuses and had every intention that they be paid.  Their handling of this situation has reached a new low in incompetence with Democrats tripping all over themselves to see who can feign the most outrage and shed the largest crocodile tears.  It has been one of the biggest bungles in recent memory.

When I measure Obama using his own yardstick of “does government work” he appears to be about 6″ tall and shrinking fast.  So when does the media start talking about competence?  Or maybe the better question is: When does the media start talking about incompetence?