Davids Daily Dose - Saturday September 3rd

Michael Tomasky in the Daily Beast reflects on Obama's really, really bad week......and the awful EPA decision, caving in to the big polluters..... A President Adrift Sep 2, 2011 7:16 PM EDT After a week of presidential humiliations and capitulations, Michael Tomasky suggests that Obama will soon pass the point where he can be taken seriously as a leader. Print Email Comments 685 More dispiriting news, this time about the White House overturning the EPA’s proposed new rules on smog. That comes a few hours after the jobs reportfrom Friday morning, one of the bleakest yet. And it comes a few days in advance of what everyone expects will be a small-thinking, modest, blah jobs speech by the president. It’s not only getting to the point where it’s getting hard to see him winning reelection. It’s getting to the point where it’s hard to imagine people taking him seriously for the remaining 14 months of his current term. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/02/barack-obama-a-president-adrift-after-jobs-report-and-epa-decision.html