Poor Barack Obama. As if it weren’t enough that conservatives across the country think he’s a socialist, an Al Qaeda terrorist, born in Kenya and also born in Indonesia and a few other places as well… As if that weren’t enough, there’s been a joke among liberal Democrats for several years now, that goes like this: “Are there any moderate Republicans left today?” “Yes, there’s Barack Obama.” Indeed, talk to any real-live socialist about the idea of Obama being a socialist, and be prepared for gales of laughter to spew forth.
Anyway, on international trade, Obama is as we speak pursuing a course that has more Republican than Democratic support, a course which, as I remarked in class, represents precisely the sort of mercantilism that presidents can be predicted to go along with no matter what party they belong to, but which is also predictably going to cause this particular president’s liberal base to feel betrayed. (It’s also not going to stop the obsessive Obama-haters on the right from doing their thing.)
Here’s a piece on the Obama-Warren feud, which makes the observation that he’s being more harsh in his responses to the liberal wing of his own party than he usually is to the Republicans: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/25/elizabeth-warren-tells-ob_n_7142850.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592.
P.S. The Senate finally confirmed Loretta Lynch as attorney general. Eric Holder finally gets to go home.