Many Americans really don't care how their government operates.  It's obvious.

It is quite clear the Obama administration is having a very hard time running the country.  Yet about 40% of Americans still approve of the president's job performance.

Mind-boggling.

Let's take a sports comparison.

The New York Jets are having a dismal season, losing seven straight games.  The city is outraged.  There is anger and loathing in the air. 

I actually feel sorry for the Jets' coaches and players because the criticism is relentless.

But we are not seeing that on the political end.

Two examples: 

The administration still does not have a coherent Ebola policy.  There is no travel ban from West Africa and there is no mandatory quarantine.

Thirty-three-year-old nurse Kaci Hickox is defying a state quarantine in Maine because she can.

KACI HICKOX, QUARANTINED NURSE: "I truly believe this policy is not scientifically nor constitutionally just, and so I'm not going to sit around and be bullied around by politicians and be forced to stay in my home when I am not a risk to the American public."

That may be true, but it's not her call.  If public health authorities deem a 21-day quarantine period necessary, so be it.

Ms. Hickox should be taken into custody, but she will not be because the federal government has no Ebola policy.

The latest: President Obama opposes forced quarantines for civilians but is allowing them for the military.

What?

Even worse, the failure to enforce immigration law.

As The Factor has been reporting, two California police officers were shot dead by an illegal alien last week.

The alleged killer, 34-year-old Luis Monroy-Bracamonte, had been deported twice, yet Bracamonte was running around California.

Does Governor Jerry Brown care?

He's been a champion of rights for the undocumented.

He has allowed them drivers' licenses, in-state college tuition, and has ordered California authorities not to detain them unless it's a felony beef.

The Factor called the governor and asked him if he would be attending the funerals of the police officers.

His office says he doesn't know, he might not.

That's appalling.  Governor Brown should be in the front pew of the funerals, apologizing to the families of the police officers because it is the sanctuary policies in California that attract Illegal criminals.

On the national front, President Obama will not enforce immigration law either.

Like all the presidents before him, he has not secured the southern border and has made no comment about the two California police officers being murdered.

There's a reason for that.  What can Mr. Obama say?  It is his failure to order the Justice Department to enforce immigration law that has led to much chaos and violence.

Now I've been talking about this issue for more than 10 years.

Nearly seven years ago, Geraldo and I hashed it out.

O'REILLY: "When you enter this country illegally, number one, you have no right to be here, no right. That's the truth."

GERALDO RIVERA: "That's true."

O'REILLY: "And, number two, when you're caught committing a crime, as this man was, four times."

RIVERA: "He was drunk in public twice."

O'REILLY: "Hold it. Four times."

RIVERA: "And, one time, he was a drunk driver with no victims."

O'REILLY: "He should have been deported the first time. And he was not."

We were talking about 22-year-old illegal alien Alfredo Ramos, who killed two teenage girls in Virginia Beach.

Mr. Ramos is currently serving 24 years in prison.

The girls are still dead.

So if the government is a performance-based situation, an honest person would have to say that the performance on Ebola and on illegal immigration is pitiful.

Is it not?

And that's the memo.