You Can Piss in One Hand and Hope in the Other...

Oh Sure, Barack, this government thing is all one big gas.

Nothing inspires a struggling nation like confidence and leadership. Thanks to a population of idiots, our nation has a government comprised of neither. President Obama says it will be "years, not months" before things start to "get better." He is certainly doing his best to make that statement fact.

Today, in a victory for common sense (rare these days) and as a further demonstration of the Democratic Party's ineptitude and corruption, two of Obama's hand-picked nominees for cabinet positions "withdrew." Tom Daschle couldn't even win reelection of his senate seat in 2004, mostly thanks to property-tax scam he perpetrated (You can reminisce on that classic episode HERE) and yet our President still thought it would be a good idea to make him the Secretary of Health and Human Services (which does what, exactly?). If you follow the news at all, you know that it was revealed that Daschle cheated on his income taxes to the tune of some 120 grand. However, after a lame-ass apology, Obama pretty much said "whatever" and decided to let things roll. We now receive this ham-fisted statement from the Whitehouse:

This morning Tom Daschle asked me to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. I accept his decision with sadness and regret….Tom made a mistake, which he has openly acknowledged. He has not excused it, nor do I. But that mistake, and this decision, cannot diminish the many contributions Tom has made to this country from his years in the military to his decades of public service.

Then, there is the little matter of Obama's "Chief Performance Officer." You can't make this stuff up:

Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday. Killefer was the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination after President Barack Obama announced their selection.The White House said Obama had accepted Killefer’s decision and that the 55-year-old executive with consulting giant McKinsey & Co., would explain her reasons for pulling out later Tuesday.When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.

Drudge is calling the events a circus, and I couldn't agree more. Is this the change we need? Is the hope that is so audacious? I would say I told you so, but I think our Vice President already put it better than I ever could: