I was all set to uncork another rip on the criminally-clueless dullard Napolitano and her bumbling boss, but a couple of fine folks beat me to it. First, JWF:

It wasn’t until widespread ridicule and condemnation someone obviously got to her. Probably Obama’s boss David Axelrod.

Obama, meanwhile, continues to golf and luxuriate in Hawaii, not a concern in the world for anyone but himself, naturally. He’ll have a statement maybe at some point, once his handlers can load it into his TelePrompter.

I feel so secure with this crew in charge.

In the meantime, can someone point out how exactly Napolitano is qualified for her job, outside of affirmative action?

Nope; can’t be done, because, like most of the rest of this clown-car regime, she isn’t. But when you consider that King Hussein Obama is in actuality our first affirmative-action pResident, it all makes a sick sort of sense. Declare that a racist statement if you like, I don’t really care; Obama’s complete unfitness for his current position is so manifestly clear after a year of bumbling, blithering idiocy — particularly as regards foreign policy and the halfhearted struggle with jihadism — that even some of the Left’s most somnambulant drones are finally waking up to it. A large part of the reason he’s where he is is the color of his skin, in a sad twist on King’s formulation. It certainly wouldn’t be the content of his character; he has none. That’s simply the truth, whether we’re too squeamish to admit it or not.

JWF also notices pResident Suddenlyscarce’s welcome absence from his accustomed, comfortable roost in the Zombie Media airspace:

Ironic, isn’t it, that Obama has been on television nonstop for three years but all of a sudden is camera shy. Maybe he’s got a creeping sense of shame.

Oh, I wouldn’t count on that, J. Even the most minimally-developed sense of decency would require his immediate resignation, accompanied by the sort of groveling apology he usually reserves for foreign dictators on behalf of the rest of us — in his usual arrogant defiance of the fact that most of us weren’t particularly of a mind to offer one.

Next up, Doc Z connects some dots:

A few months ago, the Obama Administration tried blaming its endless failures on “distractions.” Legitimate criticism and political opposition is not a distraction. This is what a dangerously distracted government looks like. It should be spending less time trying to wrap itself in a cocoon of tax dollars, to emerge as the collective butterfly of Hugo Chavez’ dreams, and more time fulfilling its vital functions. Too bad some of that $867 billion “stimulus” bill didn’t go for putting more 3D imaging equipment in airports, or hiring more air marshals. I guess none of the Democrats’ big contributors have interests in those areas.

A distracted government does not consist of a President trying to ignore a ringing telephone to personally guide Predator drones into terrorist strongholds. It’s not about a few individuals trying to cram too much into their daily schedules. It’s about massive shifts in personnel, political capital, and funding. Prior to this weekend, the Obama Administration was devoting far more energy to its greedy anticipation of the health-care takeover than to homeland security. The glacial realignment of lifetime career personnel, throughout the complex maze of interconnected Washington bureaus, was already underway in response.

An aggressive, activist government will always be more interested in what it wants to do, than fundamental duties it must perform. Contrary to the paranoid liberal fantasies of the Bush era, there is very little useful power to be gained from exaggerating the importance of domestic security. Health-care reform will give statists direct control over your medicine, body, diet…and, with the kind of audacity that turned the interstate commerce clause into a mandate for limitless federal power, it will eventually give them control of nearly every aspect of your economic existence. Homeland security gives them the power to make you remain seated during the last hour of a flight, and keep your hand lotion in your checked baggage. No contest.

The government wasn’t paying enough attention to Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab to take his visa away, after his father reported him as a terrorist. They let him board an airplane, even though he was on a terrorist watch list. They weren’t listening when he repeatedly defended 9/11 and the Taliban in school. Don’t worry – I’m sure the government will do a better job of managing your health care.

Read it all, natch. And hey, did somebody mention connecting the dots?

Cops fear that 25 British-born Muslims are plotting to bomb Western airliners.

The fanatics, in five groups, are now training at secret terror camps in Yemen.

It was there London-educated Umar Abdulmutallab, 23, prepared for his Christmas Day bid to blow up a US jet.

They are due to return to the UK early in 2010 and will then await Internet instructions from al-Qaeda on when to strike.

Hey, not to worry; Napolitano assures us that there is no evidence of a wider plot or anything. Plus, everybody loves us now that we’ve elected the Peter Principle Pee-resident.