Now Obama has to spin whether or not he is working?

Reuters breathlessly reported this morning the following: "President Barack Obama is deeply involved in trying to win a debt deal and his White House was working flat out, aides said, pushing back against any impression Congress had sidelined the administration. 'He's getting absolutely no sleep. He's working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise,' top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett told Reuters Insider."

Can you believe this? Obama and his team feel so irrelevant that they send out Jarrett to report on how much sleep Obama is losing. It reminds me of Obama's oft repeated claim that some subject is the last thing he thinks of before going to sleep and the first thing he thinks of when he wakes in the morning. Of course, he has said this about so many things that he must spend his days going to sleep repeatedly and then waking repeatedly just so he will have enough times to think about all of these subjects.

The truth is that Obama has disappeared from the stage since last Sunday. Sure, he gave a speech on TV the other night, but he spent most of that talking about things that have already been passed by like the need for tax increases. And to make matters worse, he still has not offered any plan for resolving the debt ceiling issue. Obama just stands around and complains. Is he staying up just to do that? A good president would at least TRY to lead the country out of this mess. He could put forth his own compromise plan. He is not even following the Nancy Reagan strategy he was using for so long of just saying no. Instead, he is reaching even farther back into the past to use "The Sounds of Silence" as his anthem.

By the way, here is a note to Jarrett: if you are going to claim that Obama is working tirelessly reaching out to all sorts of people, you ought to produce at least one person who can say that he actually got a call from Obama. My guess is that he was hard at work on his golf game as some undisclosed location. At least I hope he was. In that way at least something positive will come from all of this. Maybe Obama can lower his handicap.