A Double Shot Of Incompetence

Ezra Klein, who must be cashing checks from the White House, writes the following:

“We’re entering a new season,” senior presidential adviser David Axelrod told Politico. “It’s time to synthesize and harmonize these strands and get this done." That will begin as early as next week, when President Obama puts his full weight into health-care reform. It will begin, as these things often do, with a speech. Not a town hall, or a press conference, or a Q&A, but a speech.

Oh, so that's it. The President hasn;t really been trying to set the agenda on Health Care. Gee, that doesn't seem to be the world I've lived in. I'm not the only one to think so.

Mickey Kaus is unimpressed with Klein's grasp of recent history:

"Our CBS News tally shows that Mr. Obama has given 27 speeches specifically on his health care objectives. Add in other remarks, events and statements in which he mentioned health care and the number soars to 119."

27? Maybe Klein was just in the bathroom. Or Bolivia.

QandO is similarly unimpressed:

If Obama hasn’t “forcefully entered the [health care] debate” what was that ABC infomercial? What was the purpose of the series of town halls – if he wasn’t “forcefully entering” the debate.

In fact, Obama has been trying to push his health care agenda since he’s been in office.

Well, that certainly conforms to the world I've been living in. Maybe Ezra should join us here. It's a lot more reality based.

But, on the other hand, in the reality based world, the President has proved to be singularly inept (the second shot of incompetence of the title.) That is probably why Klein prefers to live in a world of his own construction.