OBAMA:  The Gulf gusher, Sestak and Romanoff, Israeli terrorism on the high seas —you see what’s happening here?  We’ve lost control of the narrative.  We look like bystanders, passive and helpless.  Even Old Media isn’t shilling for us. What the hell do we pay them for?

ROBERT GIBBS:  They’re too busy covering themselves covering the spill, sir.  Last night, the anchors led their broadcasts with attacks on each other over who was doing the best job keeping your feet to the fire.

DAVID AXELROD:  We need to do something dramatic to knock those stories off the front pages, sir—start driving the news again.

RAHM EMANUEL:  He’s right, sir.  Cap and trade, the union pension bailout, an FTC leash on the internet, selling out Israel, stealth-sabotaging the economy so Americans turn to you for salvation—our whole agenda is stalled.

OBAMA:  OK, how’s this: think of something really bad that’s bound to happen in the foreseeable future.  Then, suggest an action we can take now to forestall that event, a move so bold it dominates the news for weeks and gets us out of our prevent defense.

TIM GEITHNER:  China, sir.  We don’t want them dumping our Treasury bonds too soon, or all hell breaks loose before we’re ready.  So we make a deal:  they continue to prop us up while we pursue a controlled decline, we give them Manhattan as a “Special Administrative Region,” like Hong Kong.

OBAMA:  Too arcane.  Who’s gonna care about that besides Krugman and Cramer? Besides, I got my mosque going up at Ground Zero and I don’t want any interference with that.  I want a game-changer. I want the Times banner headline to be in one inch font.  I want the networks to schedule specials. (more…)

U.S.-Israeli relations have hit a 35-year low over the contentious east Jerusalem building project. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said: “Israel’s ties with the United States are in their worst crisis since 1975…a crisis of historic proportions.” This is because, according to Barack Obama, Jewish homes in the Jewish homeland “hinder peace” with Muslims. According to the Associated Press:

Israel’s already strained relationship with the U.S. hit a new low last week when it announced the construction plans during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden. The timing of the announcement deeply embarrassed the Obama administration and put plans for indirect peace talks with the Palestinians in jeopardy.

What about the timing of the Palestinian Authority’s “honoring” of a mass-murdering female genocidal bomber, for whom the Palestinians are naming a square in Ramallah? The Jerusalem Post reported: “The ceremony was scheduled to take place on the 32nd anniversary of the attack, the worst terrorist incident in Israel’s history, in which terrorists commandeered a bus and murdered 37 people, including 10 children.” It too was scheduled to take place during Biden’s visit, but was postponed for a week after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Obama’s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, to get the Palestinians to cancel it.

“The announcement of the settlements on the very day that the vice president was there was insulting,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Obama adviser David Axelrod also said: “This was an affront, it was an insult, but most importantly, it undermined this very fragile effort to bring peace to that region. For this announcement to come at that time was very, very destructive.” (more…)