[RoosterRedux]

It's a matter of Liberal Thought meets the Peter Principle.

The reason that government doesn't work yet business enterprises do is that when businesses fail to deliver, they die. Governments just keep on failing.

[DouglasKC]

You can bet the problems with the secret service in the white house START with the President, his staff and his family. How do they treat them? Dismissively? Arrogantly? Contemptuously? How long could someone be treated like that and not develop morale problems? How long before job performance would be affected?

[WayneS]

...the feeling that things are spinning wildly out of control and there’s no one even minimally competent enough at the highest reaches of American power to calm the gathering storm.

I don;t think it's just a 'feeling'.

[Don Corleone]

Now we learn its agents can’t catch a guy running across the White House lawn; can’t stop the guy at the front door;

After the FCC bans the REDSKINS maybe the SS can hire their defensive linemen to tackle the intruders./s

[theoldmarine]

The SS were busy on their smartphones hooking up with underage prostitutes for their next overseas trip!

[GBA]

An intruder made his way across the White House lawn and through the building almost to the Obama living quarters before being stopped by a Secret Service officer who was off duty:

He wasn't a threat. Probably just an obama voter and supporter who wanted a little something from obama's stash. Nothing to worry about.

Besides, it's not like there's no surveillance and security.

They're busy reading TEA party email and sorting through conservative activists' and donors' tax info to bother with him.

Those are the real "terrorist threats", doncha know.

[Common Sense 101]

American incompetence in a world spinning out of control

It's NOT American incompetence, it's the O-hole's.

[aquila48]

It’s. Racism - the secret service doesn’t want to protect this president because he’s black. I’m surprised they pulled this out of their bag yet.

[CIB-173RDABN]

The simple answer is because no one pays the price for mistakes or error in judgement.

When I heard the head of the Secret Announce that she accepted all blame I fully expected her to resign her position. But of course she did not.

That is the common denominator in all this. While some low level staff may be punished (and rightly so), seldom is anyone on the top ever made to pay the price for their failure of leadership.

While this is also true in the private sector it is ingrained in the public sector. All employees are protector regardless of how well or poorly they perform.

In time the head of the Secret Service may retire (with full pension and benefits) to spend more time with her family.

[kiltie65]

Incompetent intruder!

[Savage Beast]

This is the crux of the matter: "everybody knows perfectly well what is going on".

Millions don't want to admit it.

The press covers it up.

Note tagline.

[Billthedrill]

The pattern of this administration is grotesquely incompetent and in a very specific way: senior staff from the State Department through Justice and many of the senior staffers at lower-than-cabinet offices are political appointees with no particular experience at the job they've been given and a stubborn refusal to learn, as if the world is automatically going to be a better place from their mere presence. This is the bitter fruit of unrestrained political correctness and the conviction that so long as the story hangs together and the optics are right, the facts don't matter.

Well, they do matter. And the deer-in-the-headlights looks we're getting from 0bama and his clown car of an administration stem from the sudden realization that they do matter, and that media complicity in framing them for the American public doesn't change a thing on the ground in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. Gay marriage in camo doesn't really impress the boys in nightshirts waving AK's. They've already solved their buggery issues by inflicting it on their prisoners.

And worse, the people who should care about salvaging something out of this train wreck of an administration are, instead, concerning themselves with how best to manipulate the story and the optics for the benefit of their political party's success in the upcoming elections, because that's all they know how to do, and for them it's the most important thing in the world to hold the steering wheel even if the car goes over the cliff as a result. The rest of us are screaming passengers. As others have pointed out, this isn't American incompetence, it has owners and those owners have names, and they start with "0bama".