Has the Obama machine run out of Republicans to blame? Have they finally realized that the American people won't believe the current state of the union is the fault of the party with virtually no power? Either way, the Democrats are beginning to turn on their own; pointing their well exercised fingers of blame at other Democrats. Yet they still refuse to point at the one who has done the most damage to the country and their party's future.

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A week ago Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) criticized White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod for the administration's failure to provide clarity or direction on the big bills it wants Congress to enact. (source) Other Congressional Democrats have pointed at White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel claiming he "miscalculated the Senate" and didn't seek a broader base of Senate Republicans on health care reform. (source)

The latest internal target in the blame game is Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine who, according to former Virginia Governor and fellow Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, is in the wrong job. Citing the recent Republican election victories New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts; Mr. Wilder said of Mr. Kaine, "I'm just disappointed in his leadership...Don't let yourself believe that Massachusetts and Virginia and New Jersey were some aberration and I hope Tim and the president will take it in the constructive way it was intended." (source)

At least former Governor Wilder mentioned President Obama (by title if not by name). And perhaps Senator Franken's comments about "the administration's failure" could include President Obama as a part of that larger group of responsible individuals. But Democrats still refuse to admit what more and more Americans are saying in each new presidential job approval poll: the person truly responsible for the continuous failures (and his party's bleak political future) is President Barack Obama.

Mr. Obama remains in perpetual "campaign mode" offering empty promises and useless platitudes instead of providing real leadership and solid ideas. Rather than admit his Obamacare was nothing more than a government power grab and start over in a bipartisan effort to create real reform, he is trying to fool Republicans and the American people with yet another "summit" designed to give the appearance of working on the nation's problems when in reality it is just another desperate political ploy. Rather than admit the decision to try the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a civilian New York City courtroom and try him before a military tribunal, he continues to send mixed signals on the issue despite overwhelming popular opinion and the strong objections of those who would be responsible for a civilian trial.

The president continues to demonstrate his inability to govern and no amount of finger pointing at surrogates and party officials will change that. While others may call for the firing/resignation of those who surround him, it seems unlikely he will act on those demands. After all, if the people who have been blamed are gone, there will be no one left but the one truly responsible and everyone will have to admit that the emperor has no clothes.