Just in from Camelot, er, Washington DC

This was too good to not pass along. From a friend waiting for a position in the Obama Administration

I am glad to hear from you.  I just wish I had more news for you.  Perhaps you’ve heard, but Treasury (and the remainder of the Obama Administration) is staffing up pitifully slowly.  At a hearing, Paul Volcker called the situation “shameful.”  That’s about right.

Sadly, until the high level people get in place, nothing else can be done.  The atmosphere in all the agencies I’ve visited is one of summertime lull.  Obama and a few overworked aides are running the massive battleship of government with a few loose strings in the White House.

They keep comparing themselves to the Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations, and left-wing media outlets give them a pass.  It’s an absurd comparison (it would be like Stanford comparing itself to Spring Hill College and Springfield College, because those are the two that precede it in alphabetical order).  In a national emergency like today’s, a responsible government would compare itself to Lincoln or Roosevelt (during whose Administration they built the entire Pentagon–  the country’s largest office building by land area– from conception to completion– in 16 months).