If President Where Are We genuinely is baffled about why his national credibility is melting faster than snow in Los Angeles, he need only glance at the events of this afternoon, which have been repeated about 250 times in the almost 400 days he has been in office:
As yet another of his ill-advised extreme nominees was being rejected, this time for appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, his toadies in the White House and in the media were obsessively mocking Sarah Palin, as they have been since the summer day she was nominated by John McCain.
From Where Are We’s chief press deputy, Robert Gibbs, to the entirely predictable Huffington Post website, the boys were so busy ridiculing the most popular woman in the United States, they didn’t notice that Where was being handed another galling personnel defeat.
Nothing is wrong with Where nominating a left-winger to every position in the exponentially expanding federal government that he considers critical.
But when he chooses for the NLRB a yahoo lawyer, Craig Becker, who believes that all workers should be forced to join a union — and not have a choice — Where is once again allowing his incompetence slip to show.
President Where Are We has nominated so many dunces for prominent positions — who have been summarily rejected, by embarrassed Democrats and Republicans — that mainline Democrats have begun to openly push away from him. That is startling.
Needing 60 votes to get Mr. Becker confirmed, the Mouse That Bored, Sen. Harry (Lordy, How I Love Negroes) Reid fell far short in a 52 to 33 vote. Two notable Democrats, Sen. Ben Nelson (Nebraska) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas), jumped over the fence to help the Republicans to reject another unworthy nominee.
But the bigger story is how the liberal boys in the media, with a giant, prestigious boost from the dimmer denizens of the White House, delight in making fun of Ms. Palin.
Just a Reminder
From Porterville to the moon, by now everyone who has a newspaper or a computer knows that Ms. Palin, a magnificent speaker, cribbed notes on her hand last weekend at the Tea Party convention.
So?
Robert Gibbs defends America’s first affirmative action President every day at press briefings. He defends an intellectually over-rated boss three times in a speech last week enunciated “corpsman” as if the “p” and “s” actually were sounded.
He defends a President who cannot say “Good morning” without either of his trusty teleprompters, and he had the nerve this afternoon at a press briefing to make fun of Ms. Palin’s hand notes.
There is only one explanation for the Democrat boys in the media, and the unsophisticated Prof. Gibbs, for ridiculing Ms. Palin:
They and the rest of the liberal community are plainly jealous of her.
They wish they had a candidate as magnetic, as lovely as she is, who reasons the way she does.
This era in Washington Democrat politics will be remembered for two main strains of failed liberal philosophy:
Liberals’ envy of the rich, whom they mock every day, and liberals’ daily tantrums of jealousy over the steadily rising Ms. Palin.
When President Where Are We’s epitaph is written, two photos should adorn the legend: One of Ms. Palin and one of a wealthy couple.
In the coming years, little children will climb into their father’s laps and ask, blankly:
“Daddy, why did President Where Are We fail so fast when everybody said he was the most popular President in U.S. history?”
“Son,” papas everywhere will reply, “there are three reasons. He was too green politically. And the toadies surrounding him were too consumed by envy of Sarah Palin and envy of the rich to give sound advice.”
