President Obama certainly does seem to be in an awful fix these days.

He can’t get Congress to raise taxes on the rich so he can invest in high-speed trains like the one that just killed a lot of people in China. He can’t get enough rich Americans to sit down and have a fund-raiser dinner with him for $35,000 a plate. He can’t keep companies like Solyndra from blowing millions of taxpayer dollars on their green energy boondoggles. He can’t keep the windmill industry from killing 400,000 migratory birds a year. He can’t get the Pakistanis to stop killing our troops in Afghanistan. He can’t even get Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus to stop their “whinin’ an’ complainin’.”

This poor fellow is really in way over his head. It looks like he’s run smack-dab into the Peter Principle—you know, the one where a person rises in his career to his own level of incompetence?

As Donald Trump says, Obama’s “getting more negative every day.” Or maybe, as Peggy Noonan observed in a recent Wall Street Journal column, Obama is reading from the wrong narrative. He’s making up stuff that has nothing to do with reality.

So what can we do to help the President out?

Well, for one thing, maybe we should stop picking on him so much. After all, the poor guy has never run a business or managed a payroll, so what can we expect him to know about stuff like that? Besides, he killed Osama bin Laden and Awlaki, didn’t he? (Or anyway, he must have given the order to have it done.) Even former VP Cheney thought that was pretty cool.

How about this? Last month Obama backed off on the 2008 EPA regulation requiring auto companies to cut fuel costs by 40%. That could have added $10,000 to the cost of every new car and destroyed 220,000 jobs. I’d say Obama was pretty smart to deep six that idea.

And how about the rumor that Obama may soon sign the trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama that have been sitting on his desk for the last 30-or-so months. That alone could boost U.S. exports by $13 billion.

Here are a few more things Obama could do that might help.

First, he should fire his Energy Secretary Steven Chu and replace him with Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm who really knows how to make us energy independent.

Then, he should replace Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner with Meredith Whitney whom financial writer Michael Lewis calls “the closest thing Wall Street has to an oracle.”

Then, the president should issue a couple of executive orders doing away with the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Actually, maybe the best solution would be for Obama just to take early retirement, hand this hot potato to Hillary, and move with his family to a nice beach house in Hawaii.

If he really wants to help out the country, that is.

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