Wounded Elephant Screechings

Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post): "I rarely heard a speech by a president so shallow, so hyper-partisan and so intellectually dishonest." Pete Wehner (Commentary): "President Obama's speech today was both outrageous and insulting, a practically perfect combination of demagoguery and shallowness." Time's Joe Klein reacts to Republican reaction to Obama's big budget speech: GUFFAW! He writes, "Oooh. Ouch. I could print another dozen such rantings, but why bother: these are the sounds hyper-partisans make when they've been successfully skewered."