Category Archives: Politics
Won’t Take No For an Answer
Obama feels we deserve to be protected from the Congress we elected, and he’s just the man to do it. To that end he made recess appointments to the NLRB and the new Consumer Protection bureaucracy. Only problem is Congress wasn’t in recess. The Senate was in a pro forma session. Obama says that’s a gimmick. Which is probably true considering the senate was in pro forma session when it approved the payroll tax cut extension.
Spend Like No Tomorrow
Obama obliged Congress’s desire for extended vacation by delaying his request for an extended debt ceiling.
Vacation One
The president and first lady wound down from “his and her” shopping trips toPetSmart and Target with “his and her” separate Air Force One travel to Hawaii.
Elephant Trap
“What even minimally rational government enacts payroll-tax relief for just two months?” Krauthammer’s glad you asked.
Looting the Lockbox
Republicans are said to have run up a blind alley since Boehner rejected the Senate version of the payroll tax cut. McConnell is still pushing hard for a 2 month extension of the cuts. After that, they can fight it out again – if Social Security isn’t broke yet. Where’s that lockbox?
Update: House Republicans cave.
Lockbox sighting?
