Re ScoBro’s “Mass”-ive victory last night, see Michael Tomasky in the Guardian, Brown wins, now what?, mentioning a

total rejection of Obamaism

. Ooh! Ooooh!

     In other news, it’s the first anniversary of Presidentism for Obama. But how many more anniversaries will he have? And will they be happier than this one? Can they be sadder??

     See Bob Scheer on Huffit, Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail,

     A president has only so much capital to expend, both in tax dollars and public tolerance, and Barack Obama is dangerously overdrawn. He has tried to have it all on three fronts, and his administration is in serious danger of going bankrupt. He has blundered into a deepening quagmire in Afghanistan, has continued the Bush policy of buying off Wall Street hustlers instead of confronting them and is now on the cusp of bargaining away the so-called public option, the reform component of his health care program.
     Those are not happy sentences to write for one who is still on the e-mail list of campaign supporters urged to back the president in the face of attacks that are stupidly small-minded. But to remain silent about his errors, just because most of his critics are so vile, is hardly an example of constructive concern for him or the country. …
     Without a government program as a check on medical costs, Obama will end up with a variant of the Massachusetts program, one that forces consumers to sign up with private insurers and costs 33 percent more than the national average. He will have furthered the Bush legacy of cultivating an ever more expensive big government without improving how the people are served.

     Although Scheer may be wrong about whether we should abandon Afghanistan, he is right that O is trying to juggle too much at once. Maybe concentrating on smashing al-Qaida and restoring the economy is more important than binding us over to the insurance companies, whether for a Band-Aid in exchange, or even more than a Band-Aid.