Empty Cabinet

There is a very distressing undertone that has emerged from revelations surrounding the three scandals that are currently percolating in the Obama administration … the Benghazi scandal, the IRS profiling scandal, and the Associated Press wiretapping scandal.  It seems that, in all three instances, President Obama is a bystander to these events.  He either is seen handing things off to subordinates and then disappearing into the shadows … or he first reads about these scandals in the national media.  Distressing … Does he not have a process in place where these things are brought forward for his management attention?  And then attended to before they hit the national media?

I recently heard a Pontius Pilate analogy used for our President … in that he always has that basin of water handy with which he can wash his hands of any responsibility.  President Truman famously said, “The buck stops here.”  President Obama seems to say, “The buck stops I know not where.”  The upcoming implementation of Obamacare has been described as a train wreck.  Does this not concern our President?  Is he holding cabinet meetings to try to avert this disaster?  Or is he shooting hoops … or playing golf … or holding a fund raiser … or planning his next vacation?  Is he just another empty suit?

I recognize that Obama has been often criticized for his lack of leadership skills (much more so of late).  And it is not that he doesn’t have a plethora of advisers and Czars.  But his handling (or lack thereof) of these recent scandals leads me to concur that he is sorely lacking in critical management skills.  When was the last time he held a cabinet meeting?  Or held a meeting of any type that was not a photo op … or which resulted in anything substantive or beneficial for our country’s governance?  President Andrew Jackson had his Kitchen Cabinet.  President Obama has his Empty Cabinet.

Afterward:  And that Chicago thug and Obama consigliere, David Axelrod, has an explanation for President Obama's management incompetence ... see: National Review Story.

After Afterward: Even Chris Mathews agrees with me ... see: Politico Story

Four More Years

The Economist magazine published this week an issue asking the 64 trillion dollar question, "Mr. President ... just what would you do with another four years?"  In response, Obama gave his "Paucity of Hope" acceptance speech last night to close the Democrat convention (where one wag found multiple instances of delegates who believe that corporate profits should be abolished ... see: Human Events.)  Even Politico, that apologist for the left, called Obama's lecture "Downsizing the Dream" (see: Politico Story.)

Fortunately I have a mole inside the White House who smuggled out a piece of note paper on which The Barry had been doodling.  It gives the secret desires of that man who wants to live there four more years:

- Play golf another 120 times
- Bow to 4 more heads of state
- Appoint 3 more Supreme Court justices
- Enjoy 12 more opulent vacations
- Give the finger to as many opponents as practical
- Give away billion$ more to green-energy cronies
- Appoint 18 more czars
- Nationalize the oil companies
- Give an unconditional pardon to Tony Rezko
- Accidentally release 10 years of Romney's tax returns
- Order all remaining waygu beef for the White House kitchen
- Take a crash course in macro-economics