Who needs friends, with enemies like these?

whether we're disappointed or not, there's not a lot of incentive for the Obama Administration to change if the opposition pushes candidates that are cartoons.

In the last week, Trump ended his quadrennial ratings grab of a mock campaign after becoming a laughing stock, serving as the perfect foil to bury birthers. Mike Huckabee, most liked of a cast of universally repellant characters also bowed out. Now Gingrich is imploding as spectacularly as his past marriages. The latter doing so, while forcing Republicans to defend the otherwise despised Paul Ryan medicare elimination plan.

Obama may unilaterally negotiate to a maddening degree, but the GOP is suddenly self-triangulating to the point of suffocation in way a fundamentalist in a two-ply wetsuit could appreciate in his auto-erotic last moments.

And it only gets better as who is riding to the rescue but this guy!

John Bolton has his first New Hampshire trip as a potential presidential candidate on the calendar.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]