Happy Birthday, Mr President. (h/t newrouter)

A July microcosm. From US News & World Report: Many House and Senate conservatives are reviving their battle against federal regulations, claiming that the president hasn’t stopped issuing job-killing rules during the debt ceiling fight. “While Washington and Americans have been focused on the debt ceiling, the Obama administration has continued to roll out more crushing red tape,” said a spokesperson for Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso, who’s been championing

Washington Examiner: previous failures of government programs never stop Big Government obsessives like Obama and Kerry from slapping catchy new titles on the same old failed ideas and promising, as Obama did in the Rose Garden, that, trust us, this time, we promise, it really will “put construction workers to work right now.” Professional Washington politicians like Obama and Kerry would have us believe that the outcome will be different

We’re all Hobbits now, I guess. Right, WSJ editorial board? Somebody send them a fruit basket, too. **** more here.

A visual. Oh. Then there’s this nodal point, subject to change: Dow 11,590.80 -305.69 (-2.64%) Nasdaq 2,615.20 -77.87 (-2.98%) S&P 1,225.25 -35.09 (-2.86%) Somebody send Bill Kristol a box of chocolates.

Some in Obama’s base have expressed disappointment with the job he’s done so far as President, with Keith Olbermann and others even openly discussing if maybe it wouldn’t be best to challenge The Won with a primary. But then, Olbermann never was very bright. If you really want to know how Obama’s doing — he’s pushed through Obamacare, expanded the size and scope of government, instituted backdoor amnesty and bureaucratic