Seeing as President Obama cannot govern, he’s had to go back to campaigning — an activity with which he’s quite comfortable but decreasingly successful, as evidenced by his falling poll numbers and his endless, repetitive speeches.

I don’t just throw out this governance charge lightly. The Los Angeles Times reports that Obama is no longer receiving daily Oval Office economic briefings. More troubling, he doesn’t even appear to have much of an economic team left to advise him. “The economic team lacks a top-caliber economist” and “is noticeably short on big-name players — potentially hurting his ability to find solutions and sell them to Wall Street, Congress and the American public.”