Hey, Let's Watch Obama Undercut His Administration's Own Spin

Now is the time when we juxtapose, Small Dead Animals-style:

New York Times: ‘Seething’ Obama Has Been Let Down by CDC: Whether it’s his IRS targeting his political oppone… http://t.co/FTWkQsOSin

— BigJournalism (@BigJournalism) October 18, 2014

Stage 2 of Obama Crisis Management: I’m so mad.

— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) October 18, 2014

Seething pic.twitter.com/RJCNt56pqD

— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) October 18, 2014

Of all the weekends to cancel the obligatory Saturday golf game, this would have been a good one, not the least of which because his administration and its steno pool inside the New York Times worked to craft what is effectively a press release on Obama “seething” over how he and his administration have botched the Ebola crisis — one year after the disastrous rollout of his signature socialized medicine bill. (Fun fact: On this date a year ago, the otherwise Obama-friendly Huffington Post ran the headline, “Obamacare Website Failure Threatens Health Coverage For Millions Of Americans.”

Glenn Reynolds rounds up Bobby Jindal’s complete four-step plan for how the increasingly semi-retired president acts during one of his administration’s many clusterfarks; apparently interim steps 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, and 4.5 can be summed as: Fore!

Meanwhile, Roger L. Simon posits that administration officials will find an obscure video to blame for Ebola when they make their rounds on the Sunday talk shows tomorrow. Paraphrasing historian Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics, which states that “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by
assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies,” Roger wonders how the ghost of Andrew Breitbart got inside the controls of the administration’s evermore wobbly machine.