If you've lost count of the number of times the president has made speeches, post-election campaign pleas, mini-speeches and speechlets about the need to overhaul health care you're certainly not alone. If someone said 1,000, 3,000 or even 5,000 times you'd probably say "Is that all?"

It is that constant droning on about key points in his agenda -- like the yet-to-be defined Obamacare and the yet-to-be proven creation and rescue of millions of jobs -- that eventually makes many Americans tune out and become indifferent to subject matter that has already been covered ad nauseam. Of course, that is the desired effect.

Perhaps the first time you heard of a particular program that they had begun to drone on about, you disagreed intensely.  Thirty-seven times later, however, you became so sick of the redundancy that you just tuned it out from that moment on. By the time it ultimately got crammed down your throat, all you could do was throw your hands up and say "Yup, that was another stupid expensive idea I never liked."

And it works the same way with the media. You probably wonder how and why the White House would choose a boring stammerer like Robert Gibbs to be the president's daily spokesman; why they would throw an inarticulate fumferer in front of a crowd of glib, highly-trained and experienced interrogators every day.

Well, with the majority of the media already in the tank, all Gibbs has to do is bore a few critical reporters to tears with his Ummms, Ahhhs and interminable droning before he finally snaps them all out of it with a "Times up!" announcement.

Speaking of real drones, while the Dear Leader dithers about troop strength in Afghanistan he sent the Secretary of State to do some heavy lifting in the region.

One reporter in a crowd of Pakistani journalists (they not only know how to ask hardball questions, but they have the stamina to stay awake until they are definitively answered) asked the First Lady of Pants Suits how she would define terrorism.  "Is it the killing of people in drone attacks like the one that killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Peshawar earlier this week?" 

Hillary's quick reply: "No." 

The FLOPS also said, before a group of newspaper editors during a meeting in Lahore: "I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to." She even admitted that "there is a war going on," and implied that the Obama administration is committed to helping Pakistan defeat the "insurgents and terrorists" who threaten the stability of that nuclear-armed nation.

Isn't this the same kind of indelicate, bellicose rhetoric that Obama has taken pains to decry and apologize for on most of the earth's populated continents?  How could an avowed progressive even dream of saying these kinds of antithetical things in the era of change?

It appears that while the drones keep droning on the Queen is setting up her own hive. 

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