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Elizabeth Warren should be a no-brainer as President Obama's choice to head the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). She is a long-time advocate for the rights of consumers, the person most responsible for the Bureau's inclusion in the recently-passed financial reform legislation, and its most notable and vocal supporter. She also has this crazy notion that a consumer protection agency should actually...you know...protect consumers against the abusive practices of the big banks. As chair...

A wise man once told me, "When you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one that gets hit is the one that yells first and loudest." Yesterday, the NAACP threw (emphasis added):"Late this afternoon the NAACP passed a resolution calling on all people -- including tea party leaders -- to condemn racism within the tea party movement. "We feel it's very important that we educate our membership about the tea parties," said Anita...

To whom it may concern at the White House and the DNC: If you want to lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, if you want to increase the possibility of the 2 most dreaded words in the English language--President Palin--becoming a reality in 2012, keep the lack of a cohesive message coming. And keep on waiting for the GOP to get on board. First have President Obama come out on a Thursday...

President Obama is facing his Harry Truman moment. President Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for what amounted to insubordination during the Korean War. According to an article in Rolling Stone set to be released on Friday, which contains interviews with his closest aides, Gen.McChrystal is guilty of no less an offense. Does President Obama have what it takes to be a worthy successor to give 'em hell Harry? Time will tell.  "[The article] includes a...

That old-fashioned notion of equal justice under the law was dealt another blow by the Supreme Court yesterday as they refused to hear the appeal of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was detained, tortured, and imprisoned for more than a year, without charges, because he was labeled an "al-Qaeda suspect" by the Bush administration. And in what is become an all too familiar occurrence:"...the Obama administration chose to come to the defense of Bush...

Les Kinsolving of World Nut Net Daily at Thursday's briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, asking not only about President Obama's birth certificate (again) but his Social Security number as well. From Mediaite:...

President Bush admits to committing war crimes and the media overlooks the story to report about Obama's job offers to Democratic primary challengers. You may not have heard, but  in a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, former President of the United States of America admitted to committing a war crime. President George W. Bush said, "Yeah, we water boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I'd do it again to save lives." In the same speech he went...

This is what President Obama's critics have been reduced to-George Will yesterday on This Week saying the president is "being unfairly blamed" for his response to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, but on the other hand "it sort of serves him right." From Media Matters:I used to have some degree of respect for George Will. He was one of the few remaining voices on the right who, on occasion, made some reasonable, rational arguments. Now he's...

Something to look forward to if Republicans re-gain control of the House in November--impeachment. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and the right-wing noise machine are revving up impeachment chatter over the allegations of Joe Sestak being offered an unpaid advisory position to stay out of the senatorial primary in Pennsylvania. Issa:"It's very clear that allegation is one that everyone from Arlen Spector to Dick Morris has said is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable,"...

President Obama held a meeting with Senate Republicans yesterday-no cameras present. I would assume GOP senators learned a lesson from the dressing-down their House counterparts took in January with cameras rolling and insisted on that. Afterwards, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Pat Roberts of Kansas gave their versions of what transpired, and what they allegedly said to the president.Corker spoke with Greg Sargent of The Plum Line:"He got all uppity I felt like there was...