Looking at Obama’s lack of leadership in the wake of the failure of the so-called Super Committee, Chris Christie, New Jersey’s rotund Republican governor, asked the president a question.

The Super Committee, of course, did exactly what Obama hoped it would do –nothing. This way the president will be able to point at others for the country’s problems as he tries to get re-elected next year. After all, no one is really buying  him using George Bush as a scapegoat anymore.

As for as we know, Obama hasn’t answered Christie. That doesn’t matter, as the question was probably rhetorical. We all know what we have been paying Obama for…