Chewin' gum and legislatin' at the same time

I realize we just closed out eight years in which the President of the United States could not reliably be counted on to ride a Segway and...ride a Segway...at the same time, but this is getting truly ridiculous.

This notion that the president is "trying to do too much" also misses the policy point of the administration's agenda. Obama would no doubt love to take these crises one at a time. If these different moving parts -- economic growth, health care, energy, education, infrastructure -- weren't interconnected, I'm sure the president would gladly go slower.

What's more, Burgdorf's argument that consumer and investor "confidence" would get a boost if the president devoted 100% of his waking hours to overseeing the economy is just silly. Consumer and investor confidence is weak because the economy is in the toilet, not because the president took a few minutes to sign an executive order on medical research.