It appears that the WaPo’s Dana Milbank has a case of spring fever:

Maybe Barack Obama really is The One. Yesterday’s news was good — almost supernaturally so. The economy? Recovering. The markets? Rallying. Swine flu? Abating. Drought? Ending. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared his confidence that Pakistan’s nuclear weapons are well secured. The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee declared his confidence that a massive health-care overhaul will be accomplished this year. Warren Buffett declared his confidence that the economy is “out of the quicksand.”…

Call it good policy, as Democrats do, or beginner’s luck, as the last remaining Republicans do, but you can practically hear the nation collectively exhaling. The rapid improvement in the public’s mood is without precedent in modern history. Last week’s Washington Post poll found that 50 percent of Americans think things are generally going in the right direction, up from only 8 percent

That’s funny. Milbank’s colleague Robert Sameuelson seems to be of a somewhat different opinion about the course being set by the Obama administration, not to mention Warren Buffett, whom Milbank cites. (And what was that about Pakistan?)

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