I got a kick out of this cartoon from Powerline, but while John Hinderaker reflected on how little the media love is really helping Obama, something else occurred to me.

Given the Democrats' control over Congress, this was an easily-achieved "victory," but Obama has tied himself irreversibly to the deeply unpopular Congress and will have to live with the consequences of the Reid-Pelosi porkfest, as well as TARP I, TARP II, and whatever additional follies the Democrats may come up with in the months to come. Nothing that reporters and editors can do will protect Obama from the effects of his policies: inflation, unprecedented debt, economic waste and stagnation.

What it really reminds me of are those delusional young mothers, praising their infant's clumsy locomotion, toilet training and barely comprehensible babbling as if they were all young Einsteins and Mozarts.

All the other mothers are of course laughing their asses off...