Temporizing with Steely Skill

The MSM bootlickers are scaling new heights of idiocy. Rich Lowry in NRO observes the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland reaching for the brass ring of syncopancy ...

Jim Hoagland has this inadvertently amusing passage today:

But the president and his advisers still have not adjusted policies and tactics being overtaken by events. This is clear both from the initial "caught in the headlights" reaction by Obama as he temporized — albeit with steely skill — and from accounts of diplomatic and other official sources here.