"it's de-lovely, it's de Minty..."

Conservative blog The Secular Right challenges the DeMintopinion that the because he thinks the President can't do more than one thing at a time, the entire federal government is similarly paralyzed:

Sheer nonsense.  Is Kean implying that employees of the NSA, CIA, and the National Counterterrorism Center were distracted from their signals analysis by the fight over a single payer plan?  What would it have meant in this specific case for the administration to be “focused as it should be on terrorism” in a way that was not already happening in the relevant agencies?  The political operatives who manage the health care and global warming efforts have nothing to do with consular and intelligence matters.  And the Obama White House was criticized for spending too much time on the Afghanistan escalation decision, which was justified exclusively in “war on terror” terms.

Everyone wants some simplistic moral from the story that will allow us to feel that the world is fully controllable if we could just get the details right.  But sometimes things happen randomly without fitting into a satisfying narrative of obvious fault.