This week hasn’t been going well for President Obama.
First, he catches a Tony Hayward ricochet: As the media tries to pillory Hayward for yachting (a dumb act, for sure), Obama gets outted for taking another stroll around the golf links. His presser says “ Everyone is ok with the President taking some time off to clear his head on Father’s Day.” Ken asks: why wasn’t he spending Father’s Day with his kids ?
Then, it gets leaked that Rahm Emmanuel is packing his bag. Why? Because a “pragmatic” Rahm is getting burned out butting heads with the White House ideologues. Ouch.
Then, budget master Peter “Bend the Cost Curve” Orzag announces that he’s outta there in July. Let somebody else tally the healthcare savings and cut the deficit. Ouch, again.
Then, a Federal judge in LA rules that the arbitrary and capricious moratorium on off-shore oil drilling is, well, arbitrary and capricious. Seems he didn’t think the 40 year record of non-spills from thousands of wells should be simply dismissed as an inconvenient fact – and he did have sympathy with the 90,000 workers who were losing their livelihoods. Hmmm.
Then Gen McChrystal goes off in Rolling Stone – yakking about incompetency, disorganization, and lack of commitment in the administration – at a time that our military heroes are in harm’s way. Most interesting point: nobody’s disputing the facts, just lamenting that loose-lipped Stanley went rogue.
Now, Obama has a tough decision, Give McChrystal a pass and he confirms that he isn’t in command. Fire him and the he takes sole ownership of the Afghan war – which, by the way, isn’t going that well these days.
Cue the teleprompter …
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