I don’t find myself nodding in agreement with John Scalzi nearly as often as I used to. A definite air of belligerent self-satisfaction seems to have crept into his blogging, and I’ve gotten mightily tired of him hacking on stuff I happen to like — this entry, in particular, managed to piss me off at least three times before I reached the end; people who know me well can probably guess which parts pressed my buttons — but I’ve got to hand it to him, he really knocked the ball out of the park with this:

Obama’s real problem is that in Congress, his allies are incompetent cowards and his adversaries are smug dicks. I find it genuinely appalling a Democratic president has to prod his party members in the Senate, with a 59-seat majority, to stop acting like spooked children. The lot of them need to have a stick jammed up their ass, because it’s clear they don’t have much in the way of a spine. As for the Republicans, a recent reader was distressed when I said they were “hopped-up ignorant nihilists,” but you know what, when your Senate operating strategy is “filibuster everything and let Fox News do the rest,” and the party as a whole gives it a thumbs up, guess what, you’re goddamned nihilists. There’s no actual political strategy in GOP anymore other than taking joy in defeating the Democrats.

Which is more or less exactly what I’ve been saying lately, but expressed so much more colorfully… Kudos, John, kudos.