Glenn Reynolds Exaggerates

He claims:

The real problem is that we’ve got the worst political class in American history.

Since Reconstruction, anyway.

Addendum 20091004. Seeing the fecklessness of the civilized world as Iran marches toward a nuclear bomb, I have to reconsider whether Reynolds exaggerates. He quotes Victor Davis Hanson:

I am not a fan of the Obama agenda. But I am don’t want an impotent Commander in Chief abroad for three very dangerous years to come. So I am worried that the U.S. will be crippled with a weak, unpopular executive, as happened to Bush (35% approvals) in 2007-8. Our currency is tanking. Our debts are climbing. Our energy needs are breaking us. Our borrowing is out of control. The country is divided in a 1859/1968 mode. And the world is smiling as Obama, now hesitant and without the old messianic confidence, presides over our accepted inevitable decline. The country needs to buck up and meet these challenges head on, since the world smells blood, whether in Iran, Russia, the Mideast, North Korea, or South America, and in a mere 9 months of the reset button.

1859.

The world smells blood.