The Obama Show

One insight I gleaned many millions of blogyears ago is that much of the commentariat sees government, and the presidency especially, as a costume drama playing out for their entertainment. This is probably true to some extent of most people who pay a slight bit of attention to politics. It's sport or theater with varying levels of entertainment value. But the elite commentariat, the people whose job it is to pay attention to this crap, should be smart enough to understand that it doesn't matter one bit if people in Washington get along, and should get that whether tipandronniehavedrinksafterwork is, in fact, about the least important thing in the universe. More than that, "unity of purpose" is both an unachievable and undesirable goal. This is a democracy, people disagree about stuff. That's good, not bad.