I’m having eggs and bacon and biscuits with toast and coffee. It’s cold outside and dammit, this is the south.
There will be new FDA rules to end the days of misleading nutritional information because Obama is just like Bush.
Frank Rich recognizes the 11-D chess move that is Obama’s DADT strategy:
In another, milder cross-examination — on “Meet the Press” last weekend — John Boehner, the House G.O.P. leader, fended off a question about “don’t ask” with a rhetorical question of his own: “In the middle of two wars and in the middle of this giant security threat, why would we want to get into this debate?” Besides Mullen’s answer — that it is the right thing to do — there’s another, less idealistic reason why President Obama might want to get into it. The debate could blow up in the Republicans’ faces. A protracted battle or filibuster in which they oppose civil rights will end up exposing the deep prejudice at the root of their arguments. That’s not where a party trying to expand beyond its white Dixie base and woo independents wants to be in 2010.
Obama is turning the demographics of social change into a wedge between Republicans and independent voters as well as the military — which also affirms my thesis that Kulturkampfers have already lost, and that Obama knows exactly how to use opinion polls. When he described an end to the culture wars in his inaugural speech, he wasn’t kidding.
Obama understands the concept of “divide and conquer.” In the politics of consensus, it is called “wheat from chaff.”
