Now kicking himself for not having tried his arguments out in the other America.

When you’ve lost the Atlantic…: Some opponents of excessive executive power may question whether an executive order can really even accomplish these ends. The president is ordering a policy change for loan consolidation and changing the implementation date for previously passed legislation. Either of these actions could make for a really interesting court challenge, as both appear to stretch the limits of what an executive order was designed to do

One slap is a bitch slap. This? More like a kennel punch. (h/t Carin)

Not surprising, but again, ammunition to beat back the revisionist history the political class (mostly on the left, but some on the right) is marshaling to scapegoat banks and Wall Street for what was, in effect, a failure of governmental and social hubris. From professor of finance at the Columbia Business School and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Charles Calomiris, writing in the WSJ: Occupy

But even if they do, so what? First off, the “rich” is not a static category; secondly, the complaint, such as it is, should be that “the rich” are getting richer faster — not that they are getting rich at the expense of the (also not static) “poor”: standard of living has gone up considerably for nearly everyone, as anyone who lived through Carter will tell you; and thirdly, and

And he’s likely a big fat racisty racist, to boot. Seriously. His attack on the Democrats’ class warfare campaign has exposed him for the hateful, demagoging defender of the rich and enemy of the Working Man he is. Up is down. Black is white. Joanie hopes Chachi dies in a fiery car wreck.

Honestly. It’s like the most transparent, social-media savvy Administration ever thinks nobody else has ever heard of Babelfish. “Vi kan inte vänta” = “We can’t wait”. Google it! (h/t DANEgerous)

“You will suffer a wrath more hellacious than Satan himself. Just as soon as my parents go to bed and I can pinch the keys to the minivan.” “I have handcuffs and I know how to use them. Because I have every episode of ‘Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’ on my computer. And a Phaser set to ‘Ass Kick and Names Take.’ Do I make myself clear?” (h/t Iowahawkblog)

I wonder: would this outlay of funds be considered tax deductible? And are the homeless who’ve been recruited and employed being given an opportunity to unionize? FOX: The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while

Guess the wind must have shifted today, huh, Mitt? Incidentally, to those GOP establishment / GOP-intelligentsia types who think it’s a good idea to challenge Obama with a flip-flopping, “non-ideological” Dukakis-like technocrat — one whose policy is the model for ObamaCare — would it be to much to ask you why, precisely? I’m serious. Tell me. I’m listening.