Picking the Scab

President Obama and his team do not intend to go gentle. They have made it clear that they are determined not to govern like proper wounded ducks and have, instead, come out snarling.

Justin Sink of The Hill reports that Dan Pfeiffer, White House point man is saying that:

“We feel good on how the last two and a half weeks have gone here. Typically when you have a change in power in Congress, the new congressional majority dominates the conversation and drives the discussion. Since right after the election, the president has been driving the discussions and moving forward aggressively on core priorities.”

So expect more of the trademark sarcasm (“I didn’t dissolve parliament”) blended with sanctimony:

“I think there is no reward for being meek here,” Pfeiffer said. “He does feel the pressure of time. We all do. As the president says to us, this is the greatest opportunity any of us will have in our lives to do good for people. He wants to maximize it every day.”

Going by the polls and the election, people are plainly weary of the way the president and his Team of Grubers, have of doing good for them.

So, the White House as Sink writes, “is winning news cycles and setting the national agenda.”

Which may account for the firing of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today, when the news might otherwise have been the administration’s failure to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, despite its almost unseemly eagerness to do so.

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