Personally, I'm very pleased that the tide is turning. The teabaggers are drowning in their own tea, even FOX "news" is largely disregarding them, Sarah Palin has gone back to watching Russia from her porch, and given the ongoing comedy fest known as the GOP "debates" this year, Obama's re-election is pretty much guaranteed. The Occupy movement is beginning to sway people's opinions everywhere. Now if we can just keep the employment rate rising, find jobs for all of our returning soldiers, and send Gingrich on a one-way ticket to his "moon colony" we may even pull through this nightmare. Provided some war-obsessed blowhard doesn't get us into war with Iran...
And I applaud the NY times for its candor and for not pandering to the 'baggers for a change.