As do 99% of the productive members of society, 99% of which don’t vote for Obama.

Via Washington Examiner:

President Obama assembled his economic team looking for people to help with the “risk-averse business of actually governing,” Ron Suskind writes in his new book, Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, but his choices apparently made for a combustible West Wing and drew fire from at least one Democrat legislator. . . .

Suskind reports that Obama, on some level, was relieved at these departures because they provided him with “a clean slate” of staff who had not seen him under pressure:

As [President Obama] confided to one of his closest advisers, after a private display of uncertainty, ‘I can’t let people see that, I don’t want the staff to see that.’

And: ‘But I get up every morning. It’s a heavy burden.’

As jobs go, the presidency is a very heavy burden. Heavy is the head, as they say.

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