The failure of success.

Okay, forget that Mubarak, Gaddafi and bin Laden are gone; it’s easy to do if your name is Mitt Romney. He’s still on that “Apology Tour” kick. So it’s left largely to other republicans to throw dirt at the Commander in Chief over some of his other key foreign affairs wins.

See, The New York Times reported that the President has a “Kill List”. This is obviously the first time in American history such a dastardly thing has been done. And you know that Stuxnet computer virus? The weapon as technologically significant as the H bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima? Turns out stopping the Iranians from blasting Israel into the stone-age isn’t nearly as important as finding out who spilled the beans to the press.

I seem to recall the Bush Administration strutting their stuff at every opportunity that they pulled off another victory of some kind in the War on Terror. There was always a lot of high-fiving and chest-beating, but that’s about all.

Obama’s foes around the world aren’t nearly as smart as his foes at home. His enemies abroad burn him in effigy whenever things go wrong. Here, they do it when things go right.

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The last days of the Obama presidency.

Another day, another misstep by Obama. This morning the President once again inserted himself smack in the middle of the debt reduction talks. Once again, he spouted nonsense about bipartisanship. As more than one political pundit reminded us, the only thing Obama can do is either sign or veto a bill put before him. He has no business getting involved in the adult process of getting a bill passed in Congress. Mr. President – leave it to the professionals.

Let’s go through a short list of his failures to get a debt deal done.

Simpson-Bowles. Did he sign it into law? Nope. Never got through Congress, as it was met with disapproval from both parties.

A clean debt ceiling bill. Never got through the House.

The Biden Plan. Talks broke down after Obama tried to finesse the deal through “compromise”.

The Grand Bargain. Speaker Boehner had to literally walk out on the President upon indications the Tea Party wouldn’t march in lock-step with the President and his “balanced approach”.

Cut, Cap and Balance. Didn’t make it through the Senate after Obama threatened to veto it.

And now a last-ditch effort by Speaker Boehner to get a deal done by asking the Tea Party to make huge sacrifices to Obama seems perilously close to failure.

Throughout the debate, the President has failed to lead every time he let congressional leaders battle over the details. Throughout the debate, the President has acted like a dictator, summoning congressional leaders to the White House.

Mr. President, let me remind you, it was Bush who was The Decider – not you.

It is still possible to save the country from economic collapse. All we need to do is get Obama and Biden to resign in disgrace, and have John Boehner assume the Presidency. Eric Cantor would then take over as Speaker. Then we’d see Washington back on track. After all, it’s important to note that if John McCain were President, this debt ceiling nonsense would have cleared Congress not in a matter of months, but in a matter of hours.