Breakfast Scramble (Tuesday)

Dumbo throws ‘rate underneath the bus, Barack Obama and congressional repubolicans agree to extend Bush era tax rates, from Shailagh Murray
Washington Post:

President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed Monday to a tentative deal that would extend for

Newsweak ponders if the presidency has grown too big for one mere mortal:

Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency? Obama has looked to many models of leadership, including FDR and Abraham Lincoln, two transformative

Does this sound like a civilian criminal? From the New York Slimes:

A Connecticut man who was arrested as his plane was about to take off from Kennedy Airport admitted on Tuesday that he had tried to explode a

El Rushmo smacks Dumbo. You knew it was coming.  Rush Limbaugh knocks the legs out from under Barack Obama.

As does Ben Stein, American Spectator:

There are words for national leaders who attempt to appease their enemies

The end of Hope as we know it, Benjamin Domenech, CBS News:

Over the past week, in backroom conversations with members of Congress, Obama changed his negotiation tone from demanding to desperate. He told progressives that the outcome

I can’t find it, but during the campaign Mrs. Clinton aaid that both she and John McCain had world of experience and Barack Obama had “nice speech” he gave in Two Thousand Two;.  Then there was Mrs. Ciinton’s Three AM

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• STATE OF THE ONE: If you’re interested in reading the speech, it’s here. Frankly, I had thought to do a running commentary

Comment by Jammie Wearing Fool:

Obama Reflects On His Favorite Subject

Barack Obama is trying to sell his favorite subject, to wit himself, Glenn Thrush, Politico:

Rep. Marion Berry’s parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link,

From a letter from Andy Stern to the members of the Service Employees International Union, to her members:

SEIU does not accept that this monumental effort – that this reform that is so necessary to the health and wellbeing

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We’re in November already. The kids around here spent evening before last one drink from door to door demanding candy or what

Barack Obama may believe that his incessant whining about all the challenges his predecessor left him lets America know how tough he has it. The danger to his presidency is that it can sound awfully like “I’m not up to

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They say you’re supposed to have 5 service of veggies every day. Well, here’s one heapin helpin’, just now;

• CONTAINMENT

At least when Jimmy Carter uttered his unintended, but instantly infamous,  tag line for his administration, malaise, he used a word befitting a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.   Alas poor Barack Obama has no such luck.   Obama has

[M]ost Americans not only do not know what the administration [health care] plan is, but sense that their president does not either.

Health care is stalled and insidiously undermining the presidency of Obama precisely because the public senses he has

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This is the Green Beans Edition

• RECESSION? WHAT RECESSION? Surber says Durable goods orders are still off. It would appear that wishful