WASHINGTON POST: OBAMA: Under fire over Panetta. “The Panetta uproar starts Obama off on the wrong foot with the committee and intelligence professionals and was the latest glitch in what has largely been an unusually smooth and carefully choreographed transition.” How many “glitches” do you need before it’s no longer “unusually smooth and carefully choreographed?”

UPDATE: Reader Nick Foresta writes: “The man is infallible. Any mistakes that are made are by definition not mistakes. We have to remember this simple rule. It’s the one constant in the MSM universe.”