CAMILLE PAGLIA: “Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama’s first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection.”

Plus this: “Though every novice administration makes blunders and bloopers, its modus operandi should not be a conspiratorial reflex cynicism.”

UPDATE: A Presidential “Crisis of Competence?” You’re hearing similar things from Howard Fineman.

ANOTHER UPDATE: “Cognitive bias” and other explanations.