On Lew nomination, Senate Republicans are reportedly disturbed by their inability to find anything to be disturbed about.

Boots on the desk, with two 6 packs of Schlitz and a Colt 45, Biden says President is readying an executive order on guns.

[Last part about executive order is true. Watch.]

Look at the President’s approval rating since reelection.

Just look at this.

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Jay Carney in today’s just-concluded White House briefing assiduously tried to avoid opening the door to the minting of a platinum coin to circumvent the looming debt ceiling crisis — but he seemed pretty determined also not to use language that completely ruled it out.

Gun control advocates take on the usual Hitler comparisons: “I don’t think pro-gun activists get it. I think that when they’re throwing around Hitler and Stalin, people are thinking about the children who were massacred in that classroom and wondering, ‘What the hell are you talking about?'”

Boehner in the Wild, and other National Geographic Photo Contest Winners.

As I suspected (I mean, c’mon, we don’t know who we’re dealing with by now?), the White House ain’t going the Platinum Coin route. Not going to happen. Megan McArdle has to find someone else to get outraged and seriouser personer than you at. Others will be sad. Not happening. Sorry.

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) says possible Obama executive order on guns smacks of ‘dictatorship’.