The lousy bosses in the White House

From Democrats to Republicans (which I guess doesn’t count for many people), a clear picture is emerging about this President and this Administration; lack of leadership with a good dose of incompetence. This op-Ed explains how that works. To put it another way, the White House is full of know it all, spoiled brats who have disdain for anyone outside their elite surroundings. You know the type, you have encountered them at work, in school, in life.

They are the ones who are really smart with a major lack of common sense. They are the ones who can sell a great idea, but with no understanding of how to make it work or the consequences. And they are the ones who can’t be found when things go wrong or can easily target the person actually at fault other than themselves, of course. These people have a grand vision of how things should be and don’t care how they really are or most important, why things are the way they are.

At some point it becomes a challenge just to do something, to gain publicity, to add it to the resume or legacy; the actual value created is secondary, the test of time is irrelevant. There is no need to address the fundamental problem, rather the high is found in targeting the popular view of what’s wrong, typically the target most easily blamed on others.

In some ways these people are much like the mindless protesters in Ferguson who find a target detached from the real problem and then proceed to destroy their own environment because they are focused on what appeals most to their clouded mindset.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Wall Street Journal November 28, 2014

Of all the rep­u­ta­tions Barack Obama has built over these years, the one that may fig­ure most into his strug­gling pres­idency is the one that has received the least at­ten­tion: He is a lousy boss. Every ad­min­istra­tion has its share of power strug­gles, dys­func­tion and churn. Rarely, if ever, has there been one that has dri­ven more com­pe­tent peo­ple from its orbit—or chewed up more pro­fessional rep­u­ta­tions…

Not that Ms. Se­be­lius or Mr. Shin­seki and oth­ers didn’t deserve to have to re­sign; they over­saw dis­as­ters. The question so many po­ten­tial nom­inees have about work­ing for this White House goes to that very point: Is it pos­si­ble to have any other ex­pe­ri­ence work­ing for Mr. Obama—a boss who doesn’t lis­ten, views every­thing po­lit­i­cally, al­ways thinks he’s right, and whose poli­cies are a recipe for a lost rep­u­ta­tion? Hey Wash­ing­ton: Don’t all put your hands up at once.