Joe Klein channels his inner Frank Drebin in a new TIME column ? trying to convince us that nothing much of importance happened in 2010.
Especially unnoteworthy, of course, was the Republicans? big election win:
The Republicans did win a grand victory in the midterms this year. But that was historically inevitable given the stalled economy, unemployment of 9.8% and the President’s questionable decision to spend an inordinate amount of time and political capital enacting health care reform. In 1994, Bill Clinton, who overreached on the very same issue, lost both houses of Congress with unemployment at a mere 5.6%. Still, despite the Republican tsunami, Obama’s approval rating remained remarkably stable, in the mid-40s, not bad at all given a putrid zeitgeist and a half-crazed, screechy opposition.
Who?s more clueless? The TIME columnist or the ?Police Squad? sergeant?
