Is Obama bored with his job?

Beneath him:

While not specific to foreign policy, there is a mounting whispering campaign in Washington about the current President's disenchantment with the job he currently holds. "You hear it a lot from White House staff," says a Democrat lobbyist in the financial services sector, who worked on the Obama transition team. "The President is tired of dealing or bored with all the B.S., or that things haven't broken the way he wanted and it's not shaping up to be the job that he thought it was going to be. The way some of them talk they make the President sound like a recent college graduate unhappy with his first job stuck in the mailroom."

We're not that thrilled, either. A nice summary of what the Obama administration hath wrought, so far:

Unemployment remains officially at 9.5 percent (with the real rate higher). The stimulus is still dead. There is no budget to debate. The next big Democratic idea is a huge transfer of funds from the private economy to the government (by letting current tax rates “expire”). A commission is working on even more taxes. Two prominent Democrats in the most-ethical-Congress-in-history face ethics charges. An already wide enthusiasm gap between the parties is widening. 59 percent of Americans favor repeal of ObamaCare. (45 percent strongly favor repeal.) 71 percent believe the federal government is itself a “special interest group.” And the president refuses to hold news conferences, is suing a state for trying to enforce existing immigration law, has an obsession with golf during the worst-recession-since-the-Depression, and just issued a silent apology to Japan for the way World War II ended.

(Three guesses who the Dems want you to blame.)

The job may be dull but the perks are quite good. Jim Geraghty wonders:

Is it just me, or have President Obama’s birthday celebrations gone on longer than Mardi Gras?

It's not a birthday, it's a birthday weekend:

President Obama hosted more than a dozen current and former basketball pros for an afternoon game at Fort McNair Sunday.

The group included LeBron James, Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, Magic Johnson and Bill Russell. Kobe Bryant was also in attendance, but didn't play in the pick-up game.

The group played before an audience of "wounded warriors" and participants in the White House mentoring program.

The event was part of the president's birthday weekend at the White House.

Dan Collins tweeted:

Great. Maybe some hungry people would like to watch him eat wagyu, later.

The president hosted a birthday barbecue, too. No word on whether old friends Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, or the Ayers were able to make it.

And between the golfing and celebrity schmoozing, the president has managed to squeeze in some fundraising this summer.

Other items:

About that "jobs" bill:

Let’s inject some truth in advertising.

The “EduJobs” bill is nothing but a BigGovJobs bill — a massive election season pay-off to Democrat special interests. With your money.

Read the rest.

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