Making Recess Appointments When The Senate Isn't

When Obama Was Inaugurated, He And His Team Had An Insight - Though Whether The Insight Was Conscious Or Not I Don't Know. But It Was This: The Tarp $700 Billion Price Tag Was A New Kind Of Model.

For Obama To Save Himself, He Should Be Thinking About The Example Of An Unlikely Republican Predecessor: Richard Nixon.

Here's A Very Good Rule Of Thumb In Politics: Losing Begets Losing.

You'd Think Experienced Political Professionals Would Know Better Than To Place Their Trust In Exit Polls, Notoriously Inaccurate Surveys That Had John Kerry Winning The 2004 Election By Five Points When He Actually Lost By Three.

You Know, You Just Know, That After The President Goes Out There And Announces He Wants To Make Community College Free For All Americans - As Though Anything Government Does Is 'free' - Or Is Unilaterally And Unconstitutionally Legalizing Millions Of Undocumented Immigrants, He Comes Back To The Offices, Pulls Out The Presidential Blackberry, And Gleefully Follows Along As The Right Goes Completely Ape Over These Wild Policy Decisions.