WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.

Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign. Click here to continue reading article.

The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history, says the Washington Times. 

The Obama Administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force. 

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In the wake of the Christmas Day terror attack, President Obama made an important declaration, one that represents a startling departure from the stance he has offered since being sworn into office one year ago.  He said, “Ultimately, the buck stops with me.”  This is a remarkable reversal from a President, who at any hint of public criticism over the last twelve months, has erupted in finger-pointing.  All of his problems were “inherited,” he regularly reminds us.
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