Not that Mark and Jen Rubin leave much more to be said, but this right-wing crazy thinks that Attorney General Eric Holder disproves the Gelb “talent and promise” theory. What we know about the deliberations over issues like the KSM trial and the handling of the Christmas bomber is that President Obama did not overpower subordinates in internal discussions. He voted present and abdicated his responsibilities to Holder. The attorney general, moreover, is not inexperienced in this realm. This is his second time around running the Justice Department. He is a known quantity and he has simply done what those of us who actually grappled with his record predicted he would do.

It’s not that Holder’s experience is wanting. It is that he is making judgments based on a wayward philosophy — and it is a philosophy Obama shares, which is why he picked Holder in the first place and why he has since delegated these judgment calls to Holder. These supposedly lacking advisers are not steering Obama anyplace he doesn’t want to go. They are implementing his policies. They are Obama — not the other way around.