Milbank: Obama Irrelevant

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank is a liberal, of course. That makes his column about the reception of Obama's job speech much more meaningful. Here are samples from the Milbank column:

• Too bad so many in the audience thought it was a big, fat joke.
• The lawmakers weren’t particularly hostile toward the president — they just regarded the increasingly unpopular Obama as irrelevant.
• Long before the speech, both sides had concluded that it didn’t much matter: Obama has become too weak to enact anything big enough to do much good.
• Republicans, when they weren’t giggling, were mostly silent.