Jeff Emanuel Online

As I pointed out on the day of the Sotomayor nomination, President Obama’s C-List administration staff has proven the old adage “As hire As and Bs hire Cs.” However, even the knowledge that a man with as little real accomplishment as Obama would only surround himself with people who make him seem distinguished by comparison couldn’t prepare me for his pick to oversee the government’s 60% of General (Government) Motors: a 31-year-old law school dropout who, according to the New York Times, “is neither a formally trained economist nor a business school graduate, and who never spent much time flipping through the endless studies about the future of the American and Japanese auto industries.”

The message this sends is striking. A president with zero executive experience and absolutely no experience in business (or any private enterprise, for that matter) is engineering the biggest government grab of private businesses in American history — and he’s hiring people even less qualified than he is to run them.

At some point, even the die-hards have to start wondering what’s going on in this young executive’s head.

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