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How about averting icebergs?

**Written by Doug Powers The Labor Secretary nods in agreement. From the Washington Examiner: President Obama said that he will delay his vacation and keep Congress in session until the passage of his desired payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits extension — two proposals that Obama said would create more jobs than the Keystone XL [...]

City on a centrally controlled hill

Lei down the gauntlet

**Written by Doug Powers This week the Chairman of the RNC offered a $100 reward for anyone who could get a picture of President Obama together with Bob Casey, the Democrat Senator from Pennsylvania, where Obama was fundraising. The money went unclaimed of course. Republicans tying their Democrat opponents to Obama might be an increasingly [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Wednesday night was the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. President Obama’s people either forgot to check the City’s schedule or didn’t care, because they booked three fundraisers there for the same night. Fortunately, it’s the holiday season, and the good cheer that was resonating around the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers According to President Obama’s friend in the Senate, it sounds like the White House strategy for the upcoming campaign will be a refreshing “accept responsibility” approach where the President will run on his record, not make excuses and maybe even admit that his “fixes” worsened the problems. Did I have you [...]

Recall on the way?

Coattail inoculation

Last best hope?

**Written by Doug Powers Strange… you don’t usually see stories about political corruption coming out of Chicago: A Chicago-area businessman whose association with President Obama came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for corruption charges related to kickback schemes. Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who raised [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Warren Buffett isn’t even sure what exactly President Obama’s version of the “Buffett Rule” is, so maybe the IRS will tell him “this is part of the Buffett Rule” and hope he orders his company to pay up in a rush to not appear hypocritical in any way. I wouldn’t count [...]

None at all

Putting the out-of-work back to work

Favors

“The first thing we did was call Jon for advice”

Other old friends also re-appear

**Written by Doug Powers On Thursday, the subpoena deadline for all remaining Solyndra documents came and went, but shortly after the White House did agree to turn over “some” of the information. Yesterday the White House kept the “some” promise. It wasn’t really a Friday document dump, but rather an end of the week folder [...]

Historic transparency can’t be rushed

**Written by Doug Powers Based on that headline, you might be wondering if Brian Williams is retiring. No, but a different personal assistant — this one based at the White House — is calling it quits. Reggie Love will be leaving at the end of the year: Reggie Love, the former Duke basketball player who [...]

Motivation, but for which party?

Historic levels of transparency

**Written by Doug Powers Put on your hard-hat… the US is fast approaching the latest raised ceiling. From ABC News: It will be the latest sobering economic milestone that few were hoping to see: The U.S. national debt – any day now – will soar above the $15 trillion mark. As of this writing, the [...]

“We can’t wait!”

Plus, “are we better off?”

**Written by Doug Powers Most US presidents since Theodore Roosevelt, with a couple of exceptions, have established national monuments via executive order. But I don’t recall very many doing so because they have the promise of being massive job creators: President Obama says his declaration of a deactivated Army fort as a national monument Tuesday [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The “jobs bill by executive order piecemeal” initiative continues: This afternoon, in yet another executive action intended to boost the economy, President Obama signs an executive order that addresses prescription drug shortages. The signing marks yet another move in the president’s “we can’t wait” campaign to grow the economy through unilateral [...]

A Halloween scare

“The president’s doing the best he can by executive order…”

**Written by Doug Powers This falls into the “nice try” category, but ultimately it probably won’t fly. From The Hill: President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase [...]