Seriously, Obama is really, really ‘seething’ over his Ebola response

In the latest “the dog ate my homework” excuse for the incompetence of the White House comes this story in the New York Times.

It begins: “Beneath the calming reassurance that President Obama has repeatedly offered during the Ebola crisis, there is a deepening frustration, even anger, with how the government has handled key elements of the response.”

The NYTimes isn’t talking about frustration from the public. It is talking about the frustration of the president, who had to cancel some fundraising trips to work out of the White House for a couple of days this week.

The reporter says that Obama got angry with his team.

“‘It’s not tight,’ a visibly angry Mr. Obama said of the (government’s) response, according to people briefed on the meeting. He told aides they needed to get ahead of events and demanded a more hands-on approach, particularly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

Oh please, can we stop pretending that this emperor has clothes?

This ineptness, this detachment, isn’t an isolated incidence. This is the norm. From the BP spill, to ISIS to Ebola, Obama’s dropped the ball and generally been slow on the uptake.

So, can we journalists please stop reporting the storyline fed to us from White House “anonymice” and start aggressively pointing out the competence issues here.

When you create an Ebola czar position and fill it with a political spinner — and then have the spinner report to the widely discredited Susan Rice — you know something is dreadfully wrong.

Let’s dig into that, shall we? No one cares about the spin of our “seething” dear president really, really caring about the concerns of the people. People care about fixing this problem.

PS: Oh, and BTW, after a brutal two-day work week at the White House, President Obama is back on the fundraising trail Sunday? Seriously?

PPS: I’m seething.