We’re getting early reports that perhaps the “top kill” process may be stopping the flow of oil into the Gulf. We hope that’s true, and sustainable.

But while thousands of barrels of oil kept gushing from the BP well, and Iran was tap-dancing all over him, and North Korea was laughing that it could torpedo our ally in the South with impunity, what was the president up to this week? Let’s take a gander at his schedule, shall we?

He did a sit-down to talk hoops with Marv Albert. He did events touting the failed $1 trillion economic “stimulus.” He hosted Duke’s basketball team. He did a pair of fundraisers in California for Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer that roughly overlapped with the memorial service for the 11 rig workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

Also, this weekend, instead of attending the national Memorial Day service to honor our fallen heroes at Arlington, the Commander-in-Chief will be grilling up some mean burgers in his backyard in Chicago.

Nothing, but nothing, is to interfere with the Bama’s leisure. Be gone with your silly demands! Malia wants another hot dog.

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