Defiant
No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent. Seventeen months before the next election, it is increasingly clear that President Obama must defy that trend to keep his job. Roughly 9 percent of Americans who want to go to work cannot find an employer. Companies are firing fewer people, but hiring remains anemic. And the vast majority of economic forecasters, including the president’s own advisers, predict only modest progress by November 2012. (NYT, 6/1/2011)
No tears for Obama. Yes, the recession is a bear; however, he all but ignored it while ramming through his health care plan.
They Shall Overcome
Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning converged at Leavenworth, Kan., Saturday to rally for the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Gathered outside the prison where Manning is currently being held, protesters denounced Manning's treatment and called on the White House to drop all charges against him. (Huffington Post, 6/5/11)
Supporters of the alleged traitor were decked out in the latest fashions and sang Lady Gaga songs.
Clambake
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill into law on Thursday that allows the establishment of up to four dispensaries to sell marijuana and marijuana-related products to patients registered in the state’s medical marijuana program. (Providence Journal, 6/4/2011)
Tackling Vermont’s most pressing problems first, Shumlin legalizes pot.
It Has Been Reported
So here’s what happened: Late last week, the conservative Web site BigGovernment reported that someone using Weiner’s account on the social network Twitter had sent a message consisting of a picture of a man’s, shall we say, groin area. (Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, 6/2/2011)
Later in the week, Robinson reported about questions asked of Newt Gingrich about his personal life by the liberal New York Times. Just kidding!
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