Tag Archives: Obama
I’ll Never Grow Up
After shutting down the pipeline, Obama went to Disneyland to tell the world America is open for business.
Re-inventing Government
The president has asked congress for fast track authority to streamline the government.
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.
When Messiahs go Mano a Mano
Thomas Sowell is just fine with Newt. And Jacob Weisberg thinks Newt is nuts. Meanwhile, “The One We’ve Been Waiting For” rates himself the 4th best president in history, edged out of the top spot by Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Johnson.
Obama to Serfs: Drop Dead
If it’s President Obama against the fat cats and now Obama against the serfs, who’s left to re-elect him? Here’s a breakdown by Jay Cost. Here’s the s original New York Times piece by Thomas Edsall that created all the fuss:
“All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.”
