Gallows Humor

I've lost track of the number of Obama administration scandals boiling over at the moment. (I think its four: IRS, Sebelius' shakedown of the health industry, Benghazi, and wiretapping the Associated Press.) So, these are embroiling the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the State Department, and the Justice Department.

Why do I get the feeling someone should be checking Energy and Education to make sure they aren't stealing booze from the White House liquor cabinet?

It would be funny if we weren't all so very screwed.

I Think I Understand The Obama Admin's Approach To The Libyan Crisis

They seem to be hoping it just goes away.

I simply said I understand it. I never said I didn't think it was idiotic.

Consistently Stupid

QandO has it right:

After the fit the Obama administration threw about Honduras enforcing its Constitution by deposing their president who had violated it, I’m sure we’re being consistent with Kyrgyzstan. After all, we insisted (and still insist) that the former president of Honduras – the the “duly elected president” - must be returned to power before relations with Honduras will normalize. I assume the Obama administration is insisting the same thing happen in Kyrgyzstan, right?

The interim Kyrgyz government that took power in a violent revolt last week has been officially recognized by the United States, the US ambassador to the country announced Sunday.

Oh.

Nevermind.

So the Obama administration has succeeded in being immoral and inconsistent.

They must be proud. (The sad part is they probably really are proud of themselves.)

You Wanted Him, You Got Him

See where it gets you: More Diplomatic Incompetence from the Obama Administration

One wonders: does the Obama administration deliberately try to screw up our foreign policy, or is it just a matter of ignorance and incompetence? This is painful reading: "Argentina celebrates diplomatic coup as Hillary Clinton calls for talks over Falklands."

Argentina was celebrating a diplomatic coup yesterday in its attempt to force Britain to accept talks on the future of the Falkland Islands, after a two-hour meeting in Buenos Aires between Hillary Clinton and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Responding to a request from Mrs Kirchner for "friendly mediation" between Britain and Argentina, Mrs Clinton, the US Secretary of State, said she agreed that talks were a sensible way forward and offered "to encourage both countries to sit down".

Her intervention defied Britain's longstanding position that there should be no negotiations unless the islands' 3,000 inhabitants asked for them. It was hailed in Buenos Aires as a major diplomatic victory, but condemned in the Falklands.

So, once again, the Obama administration has sold Great Britain, formerly our #1 ally, down the river, along with the inhabitants of the Falklands, whose opinions would seem to count for something. We are past the point where anyone could doubt that the Obama administration's hostility toward the U.K. is intentional. Obama seems to have substituted personal pathology for national policy.

I love the UK, but I cannot help but remember the general disdain they lately held George Bush in and the acclamation they showered on Obama. Now, Obama seemingly can't go a week without giving Britain the middle finger salute.

How's that working out for you?

What Is This Admitting?

I think it is safe to say the left is having a hissy fit in response to President Obama's plan to "freeze" the budget for three years starting in 2011. I'm sure Obama doesn't mean it, so I'm not sure how important his announcement is, but I found the logic behind some of the criticism enlightening considering the conniptions we are seeing from the left. Here is the take from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight:

I'm fairly certain that the "spending freeze" will poll well in the near-term, and may even take Obama's approval numbers up a point or so with it.

What? How is that even possible? The left is uniformly calling Obama an "idiot," proclaiming him a new Hoover, and labelling this idea "Obama's worst political decision to date." And these are the Democrats talking. Assuming it has been Democrats that have been keeping Obama's numbers as high as they are (which isn't that high), how is ticking off your base going to raise Obama's favorability? Obama has found it damn near impossible to keep a campaign promise to his own supporters for a year now. Given that track record, why would conservatives take him at his word?

They wouldn't. Neither would anyone else.

If this is reportedly in a straight forward manner by the press I would expect Obama's numbers to drop as a direct result.

But, what if they don't drop? What if, like Silver predicted, Obama polls better? What does that say about the ability of the Leftocrats to claim they represent the largest part of the electorate in any way, shape or form?

Wow, Obama Is Kinda Dumb

More from the Super Geniuses: Obama slams McCain for not mentioning middle class

"Through 90 minutes of debate, John McCain had a lot to say about me, but he didn't have anything to say about you," Obama told the cheering 20,000-plus crowd at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot in downtown Greensboro. "He didn't even say the words 'middle class.' He didn't even say the words 'working people.'"

Yeah, maybe its because when McCain talks about "Americans" he doesn't equate that with Ivy League degreed, arugula worried, effete elites. Only Obama has to remind us that he even knows the middle class exists.

Ugh.

Another Palin Smear Down (Only 43,188 To Go!)

Turns out the charge that Wasilla was out to punish rape victims is nothing but a poorly constructed smear campaign organized by the Super Geniuses of Day Spa Obama.

Damn...these things sure don't have a long shelf life on the Net. (Although they will remain uncorrected by the MSM forever.)

Day Spa Obama: Incompetence Personified

Gee, the Obama campaign certainly are not very good at the whole internet thing. It's amazing what one can find there:

“In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.”

(H/T to DRJ over at Patterico)