OK, this should totally be an open thread comment, I'll admit that right off the bat. But Open Thread is already six posts down the front page, and I've got some idiocy that needs to be pointed out, from Time's David von Drehle, to wit:
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'etat c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic.
Yes, that's right, folks -- less than two months in, and Obama's already "over the line". He's headed deep into Sun King territory, never to return. And how did he get there? By going after Rush Limbaugh, of course.
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