Dan Balz: Barack Obama is incapable of running the country.

Sorry, I’m translating (Via Hot Air Headlines):

The summer question: Can Washington govern?

Congress returns to work next week facing a crowded legislative agenda and one big question for President Obama and Republican lawmakers: Can Washington govern?

…articles like this only get written when the Democrats are being particularly incompetent at walking and chewing gum at the same time.  When a Republican President is in a similar situation it’s always his personal fault first, the GOP’s in general second, and Democrats’ never.  And, notice: even in this particular case Dan Balz never even suggests that maybe, just maybe, Obama should admit defeat and give us what we want.

What’s that?  “Obama doesn’t want to?”  Well, I guess that he really doesn’t take any of this really seriously, then.  Tsk, tsk…

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Quote of the day, Ed Morrissey edition.

[UPDATE] Welcome, Anchoress readers.

In reviewing Dan Balz’s article on Pelosi’s ongoing meltdown, Ed notes:

Balz does his best to stay within the non-judgmental vocabulary to describe Pelosi’s latest story on her complicity in the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA, but how does one objectively describe how someone has taken their credibility onto a dais and beaten it to death with a microphone?

I wish that I had written that.

Crossposted to RedState.