Via the White House flickr feed.

Via the White House flickr feed.

Yet there is a sense of desperation in the Administration, a sense that nothing can be as efficacious at the moment as a sticking plaster. Edward B Montgomery, deputy labour secretary in the Clinton administration, now spends his time on day trips to decaying towns that used to have a car industry, not so much advising them on how to do something else as facilitating those communities’ access to federal funds. For a land without a welfare state, America starts to do an effective impersonation of a country with one.

From the Daily Caller:

According to photos released by an anonymous twitter user, Jay-Z, along with his entourage and his wife Beyonce, visited the White House Wednesday before a concert in Washington, D.C. During the visit, Jay-Z and company were apparently allowed access to the Situation Room. Photos from the visit feature Jay-Z sitting at the head of the table in the Situation Room under the president’s seal.

And CNN via Mediaite:

GOP strategist Alex Castellanos has a great line:

It’s an interesting thing here. Some people wonder why Jay-Z’s in the president’s chair. Some people might wonder why Barack Obama is. After all, Jay-Z’s created more jobs.

Regrettably, our Starfucker-In-Chief was absent from the photos:

[I]f Obama were actually smart his community organizing efforts would have effected change in Chicago. But the David Brooksian “educated class” isn’t to be judged by something as pedestrian as performance. They tend not to engage in jobs, such as installing a light switch, unclogging a drain, or fixing a transmission, that can be objectively evaluated as done or not done. Perceived failures in community organizing, academics, column-writing, and governing are open to interpretation and can be explained away. Not so with a car that still doesn’t start.

See below a video compendium of Barack Obama consistently expressing a belief that significant legislation, including healthcare reform, should not be passed with a “fifty-plus-one” strategy.

I wonder how much longer clear instances of hypocrisy like this– repeated, video-captured self-contradiction– will continue to surprise us. It seems to happen all the time– tactics that you previously condemned as overreaching and dangerous become perfectly palatable once your team wins the majority.

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has more.

Via Breitbart.TV.

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.

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“We really like Indonesia because the State Department, the Department of Education [and] other agencies in the U.S. are reaching out to Indonesia as the largest Muslim nation in the world. We would love to establish partners there,” Bolden said.

I am struggling to reconcile this with NASA’s avowed raison d’être:

NASA’s mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

I guess the space we’re exploring here is the moronic outer limits of political correctness.

H/T Mitch.