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Joe Manchin, the new senator from West Virginia, put it pretty well. President Obama has “failed to lead,” he said.

I might have put it differently. Obama has failed to even show up.

Woody Allen once said that nine-tenths of any job is just showing up. The president is not currently meeting that threshold.

The president has not only failed to lead on the budget negotiations. He is leaving that job to Joe Biden and Harry Reid. Well, let’s be clear. He is leaving all of the negotiations to Harry Reid, the man who just barely beat Sharron Angle last year.

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