You have to work hard and long to lose Kevin Drum, to get him to sound shrill, but our fearless leader has done it. Caving on deficits, caving on taxes, caving on unemployment, Kevin covers it all with a final exasperated, throw-up-your-hands and hang-your-head-low frustration about the President’s reversal of EPA’s regulations, a reversal that leaves us with regulations that are worse than those proposed years ago by the (Can you believe it?) Bush administration.
Drum: So what’s his next cave-in on the economy? Apparently this. I guess regulatory uncertainty is what’s holding us back after all. So much for the agenda-setting power of the presidency.
And the skies of this envisioned glorious economic future resemble Beijing.
Ok, ok, stop. The work day is over. You just can’t write about this stuff. It’ll ruin the long weekend.
Just let me say this. Trudy just came home, and as she poked her head around the doorway, she held up a bumper sticker that she has (finally) taken off her car, a bumper sticker with a single, bold ‘O’.
Kevin Drum, stand aside. The fair and industrious Trudy has spoken.