Putin, Merkel Leave Obama on Outside
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 18th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Putin, Merkel Leave Obama on Outside
Klaus Larres & Peter Eltsov, Politico
During the Cold War, it was a rare occurrence when the leader of the Soviet Union met with the U.S. president or the West German chancellor. These days hardly a week goes by, it seems, without Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel bumping into each other. The last meeting between the Russian president and German chancellor occurred in Brazil on Sunday at the World Cup final—an event that becomes more and more reminiscent of ancient rituals, such as the Mesoamerican ball game, when sports went hand in hand with high-level politics.
So Sue Me: Republicans Learn to Love Litigation
Jeff Shesol, New Yorker
It is unlikely to end up in Bartlett’s “Familiar Quotations” or carved on the wall of his Presidential library, but “sue me” turns out to be one of the smartest things Barack Obama has said. The President made the offhand comment on July 1st, while discussing his determination to act unilaterally if Congress proved unwilling to coöperate, and it baited Speaker John Boehner into making good on his threat to prepare a lawsuit against Obama for his embrace of executive power.
