Finally! A member of the MSM notices that Obama himself (rather than just his subordinates) may be making some mistakes.

But not before he calls the president’s detractors lying, homicidal racists.

Joe Klein, whose two largest orifices tend to be indistinguishable, dismisses all rational arguments against the Obama vision of health care reform and assumes that all that’s needed is for The One to assert himself and be THE ONE.

Klein’s tendency to crap out both ends makes me react to him in a knee-jerk fashion, I’ll admit. He actually says a couple of things in this article that I agree with. All of them come after the aforementioned race card dismissal so I’m not feeling the gooeyness of the moment as much as you might think.

But I have to point them out.

Consequently, we have had a back-to-school fusillade of advice for the President from my columnizing peers — and an effusion of premature crowing from conservatives about the collapse of the Obama presidency.

It’s that last bit that caught my eye. The crowing has been loud and baseless. Yes, Team Lightbringer and the Dems have been screwing up everything they touch lately but no one on the right has stepped up to take advantage.

Oh wait, Sarah Palin has. But we can’t talk about her because she’s, you know, irrelevant.

However, the weak-ass Republicans in office have largely just stood around like idiots, watching the citizens lead the way and lamely trying to jump on a bandwagon they don’t completely understand.

I’ve said it for weeks on “Planet Kruiser”: the Democrats can implode from now until November of 2010 but it won’t mean a thing if the GOP doesn’t counter with something worthwhile.

Here’s one long time Republican who won’t be holding his breath.

And now, the big agreement:

The President’s deferral of responsibility for the CIA investigation is more serious than his health-care meanderings. This is a matter of national security that will directly affect the morale and behavior of our clandestine services. The President can’t say he wants to look forward, not backward, then allow his Attorney General to look backward.

Typically, Klein undoes his moment of clarity with his waterboard whining that follows this statement but it still rings true.

Which is it, Mr. President? Do we move forward with the best interests of the country in mind or do we let your Attorney General consume himself with a vendetta against All Things Bush?

Again, Klein undoes his rational moments with pure fantasy:

And the general tendency of his Administration — toward civility, as opposed to the ugliness we’ve seen in the past month — is the right one.

Someone should tell Joe that Robert Gibbs is part of this administration.