Dim Bulb: Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod

WHAT: Axelrod responded to Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty’s recent speech on the economy by asking, “Can you leave your state with a $6.2 billion deficit and then moralize about fiscal responsibility?” WHY IT’S DIM: The senior adviser to a president who racked up a $1.3 trillion-plus deficit last year has no room to talk about deficits.

CURE: Remember the glass house.