*Who* can work with Washington lunatics - I mean politcians?

Obama's poll numbers are down and analyzers are saying its because of the way Obama is running his campaign, as an outsider who "can't work with these lunatics" and so has to do everything by presidential fiat.

I do have to admit, though, that in a sense that is the truth. A lot of stuff in Washington doesn't get done because of the gridlock between Democrats and Republicans (and when it does get done it's because a Republican folds....)

Are government is bloated and yes, there has to be some better kind of system!

What it is, I don't know. Not anarchy, obviously. But...something.

RUSH: John Podhoretz writing at Commentary magazine: "Obama’s Poll Troubles Suggest His 2012 Strategy Is Backfiring -- The fallout from two major polls yesterday -- Washington Post/ABC and New York Times/CBS -- finding measurable and significant drops in support for Barack Obama nationwide during the past month has instantly changed the national conversation. Obama is in trouble, and there’s no pretending he isn’t. One poll might have been viewed as an outlier, but two polls taken around the same time with the same sample size of American adults can’t be dismissed as statistical noise."

And what Podhoretz goes on to say here is that what the president's trying to do is impossible. He's trying to run as an outside-Washington candidate. He writes, "Obama has decided to go to the American people with this story to tell: I can’t work with these lunatics. And every time he does -- during and after the debt-ceiling debacle in particular -- he and his supporters are surprised to find the public assigns him a considerable portion of the blame for the inability to strike deals and move forward." It's just like we learned yesterday from a book written by an accredited liberal.