For someone with 25 years of experience you are doing a lot of "scabbling" to keep up with Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama considers trip to Iraq] Reference

Now she is knocking on, relatively, and has been writing drivel about make-up for the last few years she is scabbling desperately for relevance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narcissism: the new journalism] Reference