Why I'm pissed, and why you should be, too.

[Proud Public Servant]

46. Yes, exactly, but that's not all

Here's the thing that gall's me about all this. We tend to lump all conservative criticism of the president together, but one of the things I've noticed is that the criticism from intelligent conservatives is different than that from teabagger morons. Teabaggers really believe the president is a socialist, a facist, a terrorist sympathizer, and a Kenyan. For that reason, they are easily dismissed.

But more intelligent conservatives -- and here I speak both of some pundits and the conservatives I know in real life -- don't bother with any of that. They zero in on one criticism, over and over: the president is incompetent. And this farce of a rollout ("whoops! gotta delay the employer mandate!" "whoops! the website isn't ready!"; "whoops! turns out you can't always keep your insurance!&quot just feeds that narrative beautifully. Don't think it matters? The generic Democratic advantage in the congressional midterms basically vanished this week, after climbing steadily since just before the shutdown. It matters.