EVEN AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, A BREATH OF OBAMA-DISENCHANTMENT: There is only one star in the galaxy at this White House and his name is Barack Obama. Everyone in the Sun King’s court has drunk the Kool-Aid. “In the end the trust of a cool man who had sublimated abandonment into a singular willfulness was limited. The sense of a controlling leader, unable to provide connective tissue to fire the economy, lies behind the fact that many Obama voters will cast their ballot in November with more grudging respect than enthusiasm.”

Or, you know, just stay home. The Sun King didn’t have to bother energizing voters.