President Obama's economy is failing again. Just as it did in 2010 and 2011, what was thought to be strong job growth in the winter has turned out to be nothing more than a figment of the Department of Labor's imagination come spring.
"Gays are the next Jews of fundraising," declared Rahm Emanuel, who is now an Obama confidant, while hustling for donors for Bill Clinton back in 1992.
The House this week will take up the Violence Against Women Act, legislation that in past years has been approved with little fuss. But it won't go that smoothly this time because the bill has become the latest election-year battleground in what Democrats claim is the Republican Party's "war against women."
There have been no crowded rallies on the National Mall this year, but the Tea Party hasn't faded away. And by Tuesday night it will likely have Richard Mourdock to prove the conservative movement is still a force to be reckoned with.
The White House refused Monday to clarify President Obama's vague position on same-sex marriage even as the public endorsement of such unions by two members of his administration created fresh pressure on the president to fully endorse gay marriage before November's election.
Ever since the 2008 campaign, many voters, and some journalists too, have felt they know Barack Obama's life story. In fact, the story they know is the one Obama told them.
