Good news from team Obama: In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog even though the Senate contends the move is inappropriate, senior administration officials told The Associated Press With a director in place, the new Consumer …
Black Jimmy Carter
How do you like me now?
Maybe these Fox mistakes are just incompetence, but I tend to think this (via) was intentional. I’m agnostic about the idea of a “Murdoch primary” (I don’t honestly know what motivates those assholes), but this could mean something.
Obama Fighting Back
Is anyone helping him? President Obama sought to keep Congressional Republicans on the defensive Monday, calling an extension of the payroll tax cut necessary for middle-class Americans and questioning why Republicans who opposed paying for tax cuts in the past now say they won’t continue the payroll tax break unless it is offset with other …
President George Gun Walker Bush
The silliness that is the effort to turn the “Gun Walker/Operation Fast and Furious” poutrage from the right into Eric Holder’s head on a pike (and a space reserved on the GOP Lannister clan’s ramparts for President Obama) is nothing more than the usual selective amnesia, considering the program to “walk” firearms across the Mexican …
Is Our President Learning?
Hallelujah: This last summer, President Obama had an epiphany: Republicans are not going to negotiate with him. One might say that this realization came a little late. (And in fact, I did say that.) It’s not exactly clear why Obama thought he could persuade Republicans to compromise when Republicans had been saying that they wouldn’t …
Now That the Charade is Over
This is the least surprising thing you will ever read: House Republican leaders say they are rejecting President Barack Obama’s jobs proposals to rebuild schools and blighted neighborhoods, and help keep state and local employees on the job. In a memo to GOP lawmakers that was also issued publicly and reprinted in The New York …
This is the story of the hurricane
Nate Silver has an interesting run-down of hurricanes that have hit near New York. Who will be the first to call this Obama’s Katrina? Consider this a hurricane open thread. Update. Forget it, a million people have already called this Obama’s Katrina?