Is it just me…or does this Obama observation also make you snicker?!

In Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind’s "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and The Education of A President,” due out next week, Obama observes that he and fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter "all have sort of the disease of being policy wonks.

At first I giggled, and then I kind of winced. While the statement about “all being policy wonks” is likely true, there is an ironic and kind of creepy similarity that permeates all of the Democrats aforementioned: they all pooped out a heap of bad policy that has subsequently put the country in a more precarious economic and security position today than ever before.

So here I am, trolling the Internet for blog story ideas, filtering my way toward focus, and I notice yesterday’s AP story about Suskind’s new book that offers an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis, which goes on to openly state U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama to reconstruct several major banks.

Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of Geithner but this theme of overriding the president’s decision making process was a story I could not resist looking into further especially given this week’s rebuke of Obama and the current GOP leadership’s cherry picking of Stimulus #4: the American Jobs Act.

It wasn’t only Geithner who said “hell no” to Obama back in the early days (three short years ago). Apparently, many of the President’s other senior advisors also trumped his final decision along the way.

Larry Summers, the former White House economic adviser, is also quoted in Suskind’s tell-all as lamenting that he and others felt "home alone" and that mistakes made under Obama would not have happened under President Clinton, for whom Summers also served.

Okay, Obama has been an economic policy blunder who has surpassed even Clinton’s policy blunder count.  However, we must also remember that Clinton presided as president during a relatively quiet and uneventful time that was supercharged by the Internet boom pre bubble burst. He wasn’t under the same presidential duress as Obama. While many believe Clinton’s IQ rivals that of President Obama’s, Mr. Bill was in my opinion no national security policy poster child either based on empirical evidence.

Remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, 1995 attempted crashing of plane on White House, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya / Tanzania and 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen? Yeah, all went down under Clinton.

So, while many still continue to point fingers at Cheney and Bush cajoling them with “war criminal” or even better “baby torturers,” let’s take a more factually objective look at the domestic and overseas human suffering that occurred under the Clinton and has already occurred under the Obama administrations?! Didn’t the national headline read, “America reaches highest rate of poverty on record,” just this past week?

Yeah, there’s a disease going around Washington D.C. all right but I am not so sure it is as much “Policy Wonkitis” as it is a bad case of Beltway Power Gout and a touch of Private-Public Cronyism — Solyndra anyone.