Birthers Win One, or Hyper-literalism Runs Rampant

[chris_gerrib]

So, I heard that "birther queen" Orly Taitz will actually get to argue on the merits that Obama is not a "natural-born citizen" and thus ineligible to be on the ballot in Georgia. Although her public statements say that she will "finally get to depose Obama," her actual argument (PDF here) is that because Obama's father wasn't a US citizen, he's

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[chris_gerrib]

In the first two years of his term, I really do think Obama thought he could work with Republicans. After all, he had in the Senate.

By the time he decided that working with the Republicans wasn't happening, the 2010 election hit. Then, he made a list of what he absolutely needed from Congress, and kissed whatever ass was offered to make it happen. (See, debt, raising ceiling of.)

Now, he's decided that he doesn't need anything from Congress, so he'll rope-a-dope them. Whether that's run against them via his jobs bill, recess appointments, defense spending cuts (coming soon to a Congress near you) or whatever, from now until November it's going to be open season on Congress - and Obama's got plenty of bullets.

Cordray, with the CFPB, will, by election time, have all sorts of bad guys in some form or another of legal action. Obama will showcase this, and say, "see, if you vote me out and/or don't vote in a Democrat, all of this goes away."

He didn't plan for things to work out this way, but, like most successful types, when he sees an opportunity he goes after it.