Channeling Casey Stengel

Casey Stengel was the legendary manager of the New York Yankees who, late in his career, was tapped to manage the New York Mets, when they were a new franchise.  At the time, the Mets were setting records for futility, leading Stengel to famously remark, "Can't anyone around here play this game?"

I am reminded of that comment when I hear news reports like the ones we're getting about airport security.  While I'm not normally a fan of N.Y. Times columnist Maureen Dowd (a little too snarky for my taste), I think she nailed it in her colmn this morning.  Here's an except:

If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?

Click here for full column.

Is this Obama's "Nice job, Brownie" moment?  What do you have to do to get fired by the U.S. government?