White House Fool Report: The Long Day Whines

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends.
'T is not too late to seek a newer world...
(J.W.M Turner illustrating Tennyson's "Ulysses", image via gleamsthatuntravelledworld.)

I made up the headline (invoking Anthony Burgess) for Fox and the Breitbartlets and so on, but they frankly seem a little too stunned by the events in Panama City for any real whining. NRO literally has nothing! I think it's going to take them a few days to rev up.

For my part I was very glad, obviously, to see Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro having an amicable chat, but the biggest thing for me was the strange little cuckoo's egg in the words Obama addressed to the Civil Society Forum in Panama City, as he was defending their freedom of speech and assembly and explaining that the US would continue to have their back: