Another Beltway establishment pundit is forced to admit that the MEC's foreign policy is a disaster

Dana Milbank's column in the WaPo today is a worthwhile read.  He spends a lot of it observing how new press secretary not-so-deftly tries to put lipstick on the pig, but it's the first few paragraphs, in which he sets the table for why Earnest has to do his tap-dance, that make the reader respond with, "Well, how about that?"

His attorney general, Eric Holder, said Sunday that the threat of undetectable explosives from Syria is “more frightening than anything” he has experienced in office. And the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page article Monday reporting that “the breadth of global instability now unfolding hasn’t been seen since the late 1970s” and that “U.S. global power seems increasingly tenuous.”

The Journal’s catalogue of woes — civil wars in Iraq 

and Syria, hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians, an electoral crisis in Afghanistan, tension with Russia over Ukraine, floundering nuclear negotiations with Iran and renewed Chinese expansionism — didn’t include the current crisis on the United States’ Southern border.

Could things get any worse? Well, maybe if the president’s chief spokesman claimed that Obama was bringing “tranquility” to the globe — which is what White House press secretary Josh Earnest did at his daily briefing Monday afternoon.

After some recounting of Earnest's exchanges with reporters, whose questions were along the lines of "How can you possibly mean that?", Milbank weighs in with his own money-line zinger:

Tranquility? Where, in Iceland?

Slowly getting it, because there's no way not to see it.

Now, will everyone please be quiet?  The Most Equal Comrade needs to prepare for his two weeks on Martha's Vineyard.