I Love Japanese Politics

Here's how Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan is dealing with low approval ratings and incompetent cabinet members:

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought to overturn sinking approval ratings and calls for his resignation today by forming a new cabinet made up of political veterans [...]

Masahiko Komura, 65, a former foreign and justice minister, was named defense minister. Mr. Abe’s two previous defense ministers had proved to be major embarrassments, including Yuriko Koike, 55, who called herself “Madam Sushi” and became entangled in a painfully protracted and public squabble with her ministry’s leading bureaucrat [...]

Immensely popular less than a year ago, Mr. Abe has increasingly become the object of ridicule in the popular media. He has become the poster boy for someone who is “K.Y.” — a currently popular expression that literally means “can’t read the air” or “clueless.”

Just a nice parallel on this day of turmoil in American politics. I think in "Madam Sushi" we've found someone more embarrassing than Abu Gonzales.