Washington Insiders

Last week Washington's talking thinkers, who tend to speak in unison as fillers on 24-hour news stations  (a kind of Greek chorus), were certain that President Obama had fallen short of his goals because he'd relied on too many connected centrist insiders in his administration. Same old highly-connected people. That sounded right to me. This week the same thinkers are claiming that Obama has fallen short of his goals because he did not bring in enough experienced and connected centrist insiders to staff his administration, and, by God, they have me convinced. They must be right. The President has obviously brought into his administration too many but not enough centrist Washington insiders. Why hasn't he learned his lesson?