By Primo Encarnación

What can we say about John Kasich?   He had an undistinguished career in Congress – slowly rising to become Chairman of the Budget Committee, and gutting financial protections on the way – which he tried to parlay into a 2000 Presidential bid, only to drop out before Iowa because even he found himself to be too dull.

So FAUX News gave him a TV show, which was also found to be too dull, including dull stints guest-hosting on the O’Reilly Factor and Hannity & Cardboard both of which, apparently, needed some dullening.

Then he really catapulted into the 1% of dullness, becoming a managing director at Lehman Brothers, where he and the other managing directors managed to direct Lehman into insolvency, thereby precipitating the Great Recession, while bailing out with parachutes made of gold and hungry children’s tears.

But this was all part of Kasich’s plan. In 2010, he ran for Governor of Ohio on the Dullness platform, blaming Democratic Governor Strickland for the unemployment and recession in Ohio which he himself had paved the way for in Congress and launched off the cliff with the other Lehmmings. It being 2010, the off-est year election ever — well, you know the story.

Then he won re-election last off-year claiming credit for the Obama recovery, the way a rooster with very dull plumage claims credit for the bright dawn. And now, he’s considering a run for President because he wants to bring a “blunt” message to America, which if they elect him, fine! If not, “I’ll play more golf.”

Q: What is a synonym for “blunt”?

A: Tim Pawlenty, warmed over.